Microcharon Karaman, 1934

Kim, Jeongho, Lee, Wonchoel & Karanovic, Ivana, 2017, A new species of Microcharon from marine interstitial waters, Shizuoka, Japan (Isopoda, Lepidocharontidae), ZooKeys 680, pp. 13-31 : 14

Genus Microcharon Karaman, 1934

Type species.

Microcharon stygius (Karaman, 1933)

Genus diagnosis

(modified from Galassi et al. 2016). Body cylindrical; rostrum weakly developed or absent; antennula 5 or 6 articles; antennal flagellum longer than podomere, pereonites rectangular in dorsal view, with subparallel lateral margins; free pleonite as wide as preonite 7; pereopodal coxal plate hardly discernible, incorporated to sternite body wall; distolateral lobe of male pleopod 1 with folded hyaline lamella running parallel to lateral margin; female operculum as long as pleotelson, with two or four apical setae; well-developed uropods with slender endopod and exopod.