Munnopsidae Lilljeborg, 1864

Malyutina, Marina & Brandt, Angelika, 2006, A revaluation of the Eurycopinae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Munnopsidae) with a description of Dubinectes gen. nov. from the southern Atlantic deep sea, Zootaxa 1272 (1), pp. 1-44 : 4

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1272.1.1

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scientific name

Munnopsidae Lilljeborg, 1864
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Munnopsidae Lilljeborg, 1864 View in CoL

Eurycopinae Hansen, 1916

Synonymy according to Kussakin 2003: 20

Diagnosis (modified from Kussakin 2003)

Body oval, smooth, with no spines, natasome broader than ambulosome, close packing, with nearly uninterrupted lateral outline; rostrum present, article 1 of antenna 1 broad distally, anteriorly from article 2 insertion divided on medial and lateral lobes; squama on article 3 of antenna 2 articulated. Mouthparts not modified, mandible with well­developed palp, terminal article somewhat flattened, curled laterally, incisor and molar processes subequal in size. Bases of pereopods 1–4 of similar length, longer than bases of pereopods 5–7, pereopod 7 similar to pereopods 5 and 6, pereopods 5–7 carpus and propodus expanded, dactylus present. Uropod inserting ventrally, short, biramous, protopod stout, not flattened.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Munnopsidae

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