Ampeliscidae Costa 1857
Family Ampeliscidae Costa, 1857 Diagnosis. Head very large. Eyes when present composed of internal pigment masses served by 2–4 external cuticular lenses. Accessory flagellum absent. Gnathopods feeble. Article 4 of pereopods 3–4 elongate, article 6 much shorter than 4 and article 5 much shorter than...
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/6077703 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6077703 |
| Summary: | Family Ampeliscidae Costa, 1857 Diagnosis. Head very large. Eyes when present composed of internal pigment masses served by 2–4 external cuticular lenses. Accessory flagellum absent. Gnathopods feeble. Article 4 of pereopods 3–4 elongate, article 6 much shorter than 4 and article 5 much shorter than 6, these pereopods glandular. Pereopods 5–6 alike but pereopod 7 of distinct structure, article 2 with distinct, usually broad posteroventral lobe, article 2 of pereopods 5– 6 rhomboid or diamond shaped and poorly lobed. Urosomites 2–3 coalesced. Uropod 3 biramous. Telson laminar (Barnard & Karaman, 1991). Published as part of Kaim-Malka, R. A., Bellan-Santini, D. & Dauvin, C., 2016, On some Haploops species collected in the North Atlantic Ocean with the description of Haploops islandica n. sp. (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae) [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 8.] in Zootaxa 4179 (1), DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/260566 |
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