Waldeckia Chevreux, 1906

Lowry, J. K. & Kilgallen, N. M., 2014, A revision of the lysianassid genus Waldeckia with the description of four new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassidae, Waldeckiinae subfam. nov.), Zootaxa 3784 (4), pp. 301-345 : 304

Waldeckia Chevreux, 1906

Ephippiphora White, 1847a: 124 [type species Ephippiphora kroyeri White, 1847b , by monotypy; homonym, Lepidoptera ].— White, 1848: 226.

Charcotia Chevreux, 1905: 163 (homonym, Mollusca).

Waldeckia Chevreux, 1906: 13 (nomen novum).— Stebbing, 1910: 570.— Pirlot, 1936: 266.— J.L. Barnard, 1969: 368.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 542.— Ren & Huang, 1991: 255.— Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 172.

Type species. Charcotia obesa Chevreux, 1905 , by original designation.

Species composition. Waldeckia includes 14 species: W. australiensis ( Haswell, 1879b) ; W. brachycephala Ren, 1998 ; W. crenulata Pirlot, 1936 ; W. dempseyae sp. nov.; W. enoei Stephensen, 1931 ; W. kroyeri ( White, 1847b) ; W. nitens ( Haswell, 1879a) ; W. nudum ( Imbach, 1967) ; W. obesa ( Chevreux, 1905) ; W. orchospina ( Hirayama, 1986) comb. nov.; W. selayarensis sp. nov.; W. tangaroa sp. nov.; W. tomiokaensis ( Hirayama, 1986) comb. nov.; W. warreen sp. nov.

Remarks. The characters separating species are often subtle, particularly the shape of the posterior margin of the basis of pereopod 7 and the relative lengths of the rami on uropods 1–3. Other characters, such as the labrum, the chelation of gnathopod 2, and the posteroventral corner of epimeron 3 have distinctive states.