Kalliapseudinae Lang, 1956

Drumm, David T. & Heard, Richard W., 2006, Transkalliapseudes spinulata, new genus, new species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) from the northwest Australian shelf, Zootaxa 1298, pp. 17-27 : 18

Subfamily Kalliapseudinae Lang, 1956

Emended diagnosis (modified after Guţu 2006). Last pereonite short, about as long as first pleonite. Antennal peduncle with four or five articles. Large uniarticulate mandibular palp having numerous long plumose setae. Maxilliped palp having long plumose setae on last three articles. Cheliped having inner margins of carpus and propodus fringed with numerous long plumose setae; with or without exopodite. First pereopod with long merus and short carpus and propodus; dactylus short and thick, with a tuft of numerous aesthetascs; unguis absent; with or without exopodite. Dactylus of second and third pereopods slender, with or without a small digitiform prolongation ending in a few setae. Dactylus of fourth and fifth pereopods with a tuft of aesthetascs or with few distal setae; unguis absent. Dactylus of sixth pereopod with tuft of aesthetascs or claw­shaped. Males with or without sexually dimorphic chelipeds.

Remarks. The family Kalliapseudidae Lang, 1956 is currently divided into three subfamilies: Hemikalliapseudinae Guţu, 1972; Kalliapseudinae Lang, 1956 ; and Tanapseudinae Băcescu, 1978 ( Guţu 2006). The subfamily Hemikalliapseudinae was erected to receive the genus Hemikalliapseudes Lang, 1956 , characterized by having a 3­ articulate mandibular palp ( Guţu 1972). The subfamily Tanapseudinae was originally described as a family and was reduced in rank and included in the family Sphyrapidae ( Bamber 2000) . Guţu (2001) and Hansknecht et al. (2002) transferred the Tanapseudinae to the family Kalliapseudidae . The members of the Tanapseudinae are characterized by having a small uniarticulated mandibular palp ending in a seta and the dactylus of pereopods I—V with a claw and at least a terminal seta ( Guţu 2001). Based on the diagnostic characters as mentioned above, we assign our material from the shelf waters off northwestern Australia to the Kalliapseudinae .

The Kalliapseudinae has also been defined as having the dactylus of pereopods IV and V with a tuft of aesthetascs ( Guţu 2001, 2006). There are, however, some species (i.e. Kalliapseudes langi Guţu, 2006 ; K. senegalensis Guţu, 2006 ; K. struthi Bamber, 2005 ; and the new genus described herein) that have only a few distal setae on the dactylus and we have amended the subfamily diagnosis to accommodate this fact.