Paraprotella, Mayer, 1903

Lim, Jacqueline Hui Chern, Othman, Bin Haji Ross & Takeuchi, Ichiro, 2015, Description of Orthoprotella bicornis, new species, and Paraprotella teluksuang, new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Johor, Malaysia with special reference to unusual sexual bias towards females in Paraprotella, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63, pp. 33-48 : 46

Key to the species in the genus Paraprotella

1. Head with single pair of anteriorly-curved mid-dorsal projections ...............................................................................2

– Head with 1 large anteriorly-curved mid-dorsal projection... 3

2. Pereonite 3 without mid-dorsal projections, 1 anterolateral projection present; Pereonite 6 without ventrolateral .............. projection............................. Paraprotella prima Mayer, 1903

– Pereonite 3 with 1 pair of mid-dorsal projections, anterolateral projection absent; Pereonite 6 with 1 large ventrolateral projection..... Paraprotella secunda Mayer, 1903

3. Pereonite 2 with 1 dorsodistal projection; Pereonite 3 without anterolateral projection.............................................................. ........ Paraprotella saltatrix Takeuchi & Guerra-García, 2002

– Pereonite 2 without dorsodistal projection; Pereonite 3 with 1 anterolateral projection.............................................................. ...................................... Paraprotella teluksuang , new species