Ampeliscidae Costa 1857

• Main Authors: Kaim-Malka, R. A., Bellan-Santini, D., Dauvin, C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Ampeliscidae; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6077703; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1B06DD64FFD5447FFF7DFD26AAE8F8FC

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