Zenobianopsis Hale, 1946

Poore, Gary C. B., 2012, Four new valviferan isopods from diverse tropical Australian habitats (Crustacea: Isopoda: Holognathidae and Idoteidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69, pp. 327-340 : 328

Zenobianopsis Hale, 1946

Zenobianopsis Hale, 1946:164–165 .– Poore and Lew Ton,1990:74.

Remarks. Poore and Lew Ton (1990) rediagnosed the genus and redescribed the type species, Z. caeca Hale, 1946 . This species and the second, Z. rotundicauda Kussakin, 1967 are both from the Southern Ocean. Here, a third is described from deep water at a more tropical latitude.

The head of this species and of Z. caeca (confirmed on NMV material) possesses an obvious horizontal groove at the base of antenna 2 reaching back about one third of the head length. The groove is not seen in species of any of the other genera, Cleantis , Cleantioides or Holognathus .