Microcharon
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Ordo: Isopoda
Familia: Lepidocharontidae
Name
Microcharon Karaman, 1934 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Microcharon stygius (Karaman, 1933)
Genus diagnosis
(modified from Galassi et al. 2016[1]). Body cylindrical; rostrum weakly developed or absent; antennula 5 or 6 articles; antennal flagellum longer than podomere, pereonites rectangular in dorsal view, with subparallel lateral margins; free pleonite as wide as preonite 7; pereopodal coxal plate hardly discernible, incorporated to sternite body wall; distolateral lobe of male pleopod 1 with folded hyaline lamella running parallel to lateral margin; female operculum as long as pleotelson, with two or four apical setae; well-developed uropods with slender endopod and exopod.
Taxon Treatment
- Kim, J; Lee, W; Karanovic, I; 2017: A new species of Microcharon from marine interstitial waters, Shizuoka, Japan (Isopoda, Lepidocharontidae) ZooKeys, (680): 13-31. doi
Other References
- ↑ Galassi D, Bruce N, Fiasca B, Dole-Oliver M (2016) A new family Lepidocharontidae with description of Lepidocharon gen. n., from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and redefinition of the Microparasellidae (Isopoda, Asellota). Zookeys 594: 11–50. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.504.8049
