Photidae

• Main Authors: Myers, Alan A., Rigolet, Carine, Thiébaut, Eric, Dubois, Stanislas F.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Photidae; DuBois; Myers; Rigolet
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6165916; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6165916

Family Photidae Diagnosis. Body laterally compressed, rostrum short, lateral cephalic lobe weakly or strongly extended, eye, if present, situated proximal to lobe or completely of partially enclosed in extended lobe; anteroventral margin moderately to strongly recessed and moderately excavate. Mandible palp article 3 asymmetrical, distally rounded, setae extending along most of posterior margin or subsymmetrical with setae mostly distal. Gnathopod 2 in male larger than gnathopod 1, merus not enlarged. Pereopods 5–7 not subchelate. Pereopod 7 slightly longer than pereopod 6; urosomites free. Uropod 3 peduncle short with sides expanded or long, parallel-sided or narrowing distally; telson without hooks or denticles. Published as part of Myers, Alan A., Rigolet, Carine, Thiébaut, Eric & Dubois, Stanislas F., 2012, A new species of amphipod, Photis inornatus sp. nov. (Corophiidea, Photidae) from a ' Haploops community' in Brittany, pp. 55-61 in Zootaxa 3236 on page 56, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.214894