Aborolobatea Ledoyer, 1984

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Aborolobatea Ledoyer, 1984

Aborolobatea Ledoyer, 1984: 90 .

Type species. Aborolobatea paracheliformis Ledoyer, 1984 , original designation.

Diagnosis. Mandible molar reduced or vestigial, not triturative. Maxilliped inner plate absent; palp article 2 greatly enlarged. Gnathopods 1–2 carpi without posterior lobes. Pereopods 3–4 dactyli minute. Pereopod 4 coxa without posteroventral lobe. Pereopod 5 coxa as deep as coxa 4. Uropod 1 outer ramus much shorter than inner.

Included species. Aborolobatea paracheliformis Ledoyer, 1984 ; Aborolobatea insidiosa sp. nov.

Remarks. The tropical Australasian genus Aborolobatea is very distinctive. It has several autapomorphies, including the absence of inner plates on the maxilliped, the absence of carpal lobes on the gnathopods and the very short outer ramus of uropod 1, which separate it from other genera of the Oedicerotidae . Based on the subchelate gnathopods with long carpi and lobes absent and coxa 5 as deep as coxa 4, Aborolobatea is similar to Cornudilla Barnard & Karaman, 1991 and Westwoodilla Bate, 1857 . The later genera however are distinguished by the well developed mandibular molars, well developed dactyli on pereopods 3–4 and well developed rami on uropod 1.