Genus Gabunillo Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983

Gabunillo Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983: 128 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Gabunillo coecus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983, by original designation and monotypy (see Schmidt & Leistikow 2004).

DIAGNOSIS. — After Schmalfuss & Ferrara (1983): animals of reduced size (up to 3.5 mm); endoantennal conglobation; roller (sensu Schmalfuss 1984); dorsal surface smooth bearing triangular or fringed scale-setae; pereonites 1-7 with one line of short noduli laterales per side; cephalon with lateral lobes not well-developed, frontal shield fused with cephalon, frontal line interrupted on middle, suprantennal line absent; eyes reduced or absent; pereonite 1 epimera with schisma on posterior corners, lateral margin grooved; pereonite 2 and 3 epimera with transverse ventral ridge, sometimes absent; telson triangular; antennula of three articles; antennal flagellum of two articles, apical organ short; mandibles with molar penicil dichotomized, left mandible with 2+1 penicils, right mandible with 1+1 penicils; maxillula outer endite of 4+4 teeth, outer set apically entire; maxilla bilobate; uropod protopod enlarged and flattened, exopod very short inserted sub-terminally; pleopod exopods without respiratory structures.