Maeropsis

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Amphipoda
Familia: Maeridae

Name

Maeropsis Chevreux, 1919 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile

Diagnosis

(modified from Krapp-Schickel 2008). 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