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{{Publication to wiki notice
 | author = Wongkamhaeng, Koraon AND Coleman, Charles Oliver AND Pholpunthin, Pornsilp
 | author_abbreviated = Wongkamhaeng K AND Coleman C AND Pholpunthin P
 | year = 2013
 | title = ''Maeropsis paphavasitae'' and ''Rotomelita longipropoda'', two new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Lower Gulf of Thailand
 | journal = ZooKeys
 | volume = 307
 | pages = 15--33
 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.307.5273
 | citationurl = http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/5273/citation/ 
 | url = http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/5273/abstract
 | publisher = Pensoft Publishers
 | publisherurl = http://www.pensoft.net/
}}					

{{Treatment start
 | Ordo = Amphipoda
 | Familia = Maeridae
 | Genus = Maeropsis
 | Specific name = 
 | Infraspecific name = 
 | Taxon rank = 	
 | Taxon authority = Chevreux, 1919
 | Taxon status = 
 | Wikispecies page name = Maeropsis
 | Pensoft Profile = Maeropsis
}}

==Diagnosis==
'''(modified from Krapp-Schickel 2008<ref name="B9">{{aut|Krapp-Schickel T}} (2008) On the genera ''Meximaera'', ''Ruffomaera'' gen. nov., ''Maeropsis'' and ''Ceradocus'' from Atlantic coasts (Amphipoda: Melitidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88: 1425-1432. doi: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315408002014 10.1017/S0025315408002014]</ref >)'''. Eyes reniform or round. Body smooth. Mandible palp article 1 with tooth-shaped distal prolongation, article 3 slender, linear. Maxilla 2 inner plate setation also present laterally. Gnathopods subchelate, both with well-defined palmar corner. Gnathopod 2 dactylus outer margin smooth; palm with small U-shaped excavation, palmar corner with tooth-shaped elevation and bearing. Pereopod dactyli simple. Uropod 3 with subequal rami, distally truncated, no second article on outer ramus visible. Epimera 1–3 smooth, with posterodistal tip. Telson cleft, lobes distally incised, outer end of incision clearly longer than inner one; with 1-2 setae inserted in incision.

==Type species==
''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis perrieri}}'' Chevreux, 1919 (type by monotypy).

==Species composition==
''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis brevispina}}'' (Kim & Kim, 1991); ''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis cobia}}'' Krapp-Schickel, 2009; ''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis griffini}}'' (Berents, 1983), ''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis perrieri}}'' Chevreux, 1919 (type species); ''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis paphavasitae}}'' sp. n. (this study); ''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis rathbunae}}'' (Pearse, 1908); ''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis revelata}}'' (Krapp et al., 1996); ''{{Taxon name|Maeropsis serratipalma}}'' (Nagata, 1965).					

==Taxon Treatment==
*{{aut|Wongkamhaeng, K}}; {{aut|Coleman, C}}; {{aut|Pholpunthin, P}}; 2013: ''Maeropsis paphavasitae'' and ''Rotomelita longipropoda'', two new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Lower Gulf of Thailand [http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/ ''ZooKeys'',] '''307''': 15-33. {{doi|10.3897/zookeys.307.5273}}

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