Apseudomorpha Miller 1940

• Main Authors: Morales-Núñez, Andrés G., Heard, Richard W., Bird, Graham J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Metapseudidae; Apseudomorpha; Northeast Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5929528; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/35508796FFE4FFACFF79F917FA53FCEB

Key to the known species (females) of Apseudomorpha, modified from (Guţu 2009) 1. Pereopod-1 dorsal proximal margin of basis with blunt, spiniform process. A . negoescuae [Indian Ocean: Réunion Island] - Pereopod-1 dorsal proximal margin of basis lacking a blunt, spiniform process. 2 2. Pleonites 1̅5 without a long seta on dorsolateral margins. A. avicularia [Southeastern Atlantic Ocean: Cape Town] - At least the last pleonite with a long seta on dorsolateral margins. 3 3. Pleopods absent. A . vestafricana [Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Mauritania] - Pleopods present (uni- or biramous). 4 4. Only the last pleonite with a long seta on distolateral margins. 5 - More than the last pleonite with a long seta on distolateral margins. 6 5. First peduncular article of antennule with some dentiform processes on the proximal half of inner margin. A . ortizi [Caribbean Sea: Cuba] - First peduncular article of antennule without dentiform processes on the proximal half of inner margin. A. albida [Northwest Pacific Ocean: Japan] 6. Last four pleonites with a long seta on distolateral margins. 7 - At most the last three pleonites with a long seta on distolateral margins. 8 7. Pleopods biramous, with biarticulate exopodite. A . magdalenensis [Northwest Atlantic Ocean: Mexico] - Pleopods biramous, with uniarticulate exopodite (in male), or uniramous (in female). A . veleronis [Southeast Pacific Ocean and Northeast Atlantic Ocean: Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama] 8. Last three pleonites with a long seta on lateral margins. A . oahuensis [Southern North Pacific Ocean: O‘ahu Island] - Only two pleonites (second and fifth) with a long seta on distolateral margins. 9 9. Pleopods uniramous. A . fontainei [Red Sea: Aqaba Gulf] - Pleopods biramous. 10 10. Pereopod-1 carpus and propodus ventral margin with three and five spiniform setae, respectively; one branch of pleopods with two long setae. A . glebosa [Northeast and Southeast Pacific Ocean: Mexico to Ecuador] - Pereopod-1 carpus and propodus ventral margin with two and four spiniform setae, ...