Virgammaropsis, Myers, 2009
Myers, Alan A., 2009, Photidae *, Zootaxa 2260 (1), pp. 771-799 : 795-796
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.43 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5314868 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B22D57-FF94-FFE1-FF79-0A36FEAE45C9 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Virgammaropsis |
status |
gen. nov. |
Virgammaropsis View in CoL gen. nov.
Type species. Virgammaropsis artemis View in CoL sp. nov.
Etymology. Latin: Virga meaning a rod (referring to the unexpanded pereopods), as a prefix to Gammaropsis , a related genus.
Diagnosis. Head anteroventral margin weakly recessed, not extending behind posterior margin of eye; lateral cephalic lobes rounded. Mandible palp article 3 rod-shaped, parallel-sided. Antenna 1 peduncular article 1 longer than article 3; accessory flagellum distinct and multiarticulate. Coxae 1–2 without spines on distal margin. Coxa 1 not distally acute. Gnathopod 2 distinctly larger than gnathopod 1. Gnathopods 1–2 and pereopods 3–5 (probably also 6 and 7) with weakly expanded bases. Urosomites 1–2 without dorsolateral spines.
Included species. Virgammaropsis artemis sp. nov.
Remarks. Virgammaropsis differs from Gammaropsis Liljeborg , in its poorly recessed head, parallelsided article 3 of mandibular palp and weakly expanded pereopod bases. It resembles Falcigammaropsis Myers, 1995 from Papua New Guinea, in the parallel-sided article 3 of the mandibular palp, and in the form of the male gnathopod 2. It differs from that genus however in lacking an acute epistome, in the unexpanded basis of pereopod 5 (and probably also the unknown pereopods 6-7), and in the absence of spines on urosomite 1.
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