Halacarsantia Wolff, 1989

Shimomura, Michitaka & Bruce, Niel L., 2012, A new species of Halacarsantia Wolff, 1989 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota, Santiidae) from Wistari Reef, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, ZooKeys 173, pp. 1-9 : 2-3

Halacarsantia Wolff, 1989

Halacarsantia Wolff, 1989: 184.

Type species.

Halacarsantia justi Wolff, 1989; by original designation.

Species included.

Halacarsantia colombiensis Wolff & Brandt, 2000, Colombia; Halacarsantia justi Wolff, 1989, Andaman Sea; Halacarsantia kussakini Müller, 1992, Mooréa; Halacarsantia ovata Shimomura & Ariyama, 2004, Japan; Halacarsantia setosa Shimomura & Ariyama, 2004, Japan; Halacarsantia uniramea (Menzies & Miller, 1955), New Zealand.

Diagnosi.

(modified from Wolff 1989). Body depressed, lanceolate or ovate, widest at pereonite 3, with robust setae on or near lateral margins of head, pereonites and pleotelson. Head with large, broadly rounded, frontal lobe. Eye lobes obsolete or small. No pleonite visible anterior to pleotelson. Second article of antennula with dorsolateral projection; article 5 as long as two preceding equally sized articles combined, with aesthetasc. Third article of peduncle of antenna with outer projection, with robust seta. Pereopods short, robust or slender, with robust setae, particularly on carpus. Pereopod 1 with two claws. Female operculum broader than long. Uropods uniramous.

Key to the species of Halacarsantia .