Ventiella Barnard & Ingram 1990

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Ventiella Barnard & Ingram, 1990: 31 .

Type species. Ventiella sulfuris Barnard & Ingram, 1990, original designation.

Included species. Ventiella includes 1 species: V. sulfuris Barnard & Ingram, 1990 .

Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 peduncle article 1 without anterodistal lobe; accessory flagellum forming cap covering callynophore. Antenna 2 brush setae [unknown]. Mandible molar a reduced column with convex, fully triturating surface. Maxilla 1 outer plate a well developed 7/4 crown. Maxilla 2 inner plate subequal to or slightly longer than outer plate. Gnathopod 1 subchelate; coxa 1 reduced, significantly shorter than coxa 2, tapering distally; ischium short (length less than 2 × breadth); carpus long (length 2 to 4 × breadth); propodus margins subparallel. Uropod 2 inner ramus not constricted. Telson notched .

Remarks. Only Ventiella and Galathella have a subchelate gnathopod 1 with a reduced tapering coxa. They differ significantly in the the relative lengths of the maxilla 2 plates (subequal in Ventiella, inner plate slightly to significantly shorter in Galathella) and in the telson (notched in Ventiella, moderately to deeply cleft in Galathella).

Distribution. Pacific Ocean. Galapagos vents (Barnard & Ingram, 1990).