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Ordo: Amphipoda
Familia: Maeridae
Name
Maeropsis Chevreux, 1919 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
(modified from Krapp-Schickel 2008[1]). 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
Maeropsis perrieri Chevreux, 1919 (type by monotypy).
Species composition
Maeropsis brevispina (Kim & Kim, 1991); Maeropsis cobia Krapp-Schickel, 2009; Maeropsis griffini (Berents, 1983), Maeropsis perrieri Chevreux, 1919 (type species); Maeropsis paphavasitae sp. n. (this study); Maeropsis rathbunae (Pearse, 1908); Maeropsis revelata (Krapp et al., 1996); Maeropsis serratipalma (Nagata, 1965).
Taxon Treatment
- Wongkamhaeng, K; Coleman, C; Pholpunthin, P; 2013: Maeropsis paphavasitae and Rotomelita longipropoda, two new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Lower Gulf of Thailand ZooKeys, 307: 15-33. doi
Other References
- ↑ 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: 10.1017/S0025315408002014