Eplumula Williams, 1982

Castro, Peter, Williams, Austin B. & Cooper, Lara L., 2003, Revision of the family Latreilliidae Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), Zoosystema 25 (4), pp. 601-634 : 605

Genus Eplumula Williams, 1982

Eplumula Williams, 1982: 229 .

Eplumura [sic] – Takeda 1995: 138.

Eplumra [sic] – Gosliner et al. 1996: 235. — Minemizu 2000: 187.

TYPE SPECIES. — Latreillia phalangium de Haan, 1839 by original designation ( Williams 1982: 229). Gender: feminine.

DIAGNOSIS. — Last pair of pereopods (P5) conspicuously short, total length of each appendage shorter than merus of third pair (P4) ( Fig. 2 ); each propodus of P5 half or less that half length of carpus of P5; without conspicuous, feather-like setae on sides, distally flattened, broadened, often distally spinose; dactyli forming subchelae ( Fig. 2 ; see also Williams 1982: fig. 1a).

REMARKS

Williams (1982) proposed Eplumula on the basis of the characteristic nature of the last pair of pereopods (P5) of two species of Latreillia : L. australiensis Henderson, 1888 and L. phalangium de Haan, 1839 . The P5 are shorter than the merus of the P4, their propodi are distally flattened and broadened, and lack the feather-like setae of Latreillia .

Figures

FIG. 2. — Eplumula australiensis (Henderson,1888), New Caledonia, station data unrecorded, ♀, dorsal view,right pereopods omitted.