Archaeoscina

Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2006, A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Archaeoscinoidea Vinogradov, Volkov & Semenova, 1982 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), Zootaxa 1125, pp. 1-37 : 8-9

Key to the species of the genus Archaeoscina

1. Pereopod 6 as long as, or only marginally shorter than, P5. Pereopod 7 only marginally shorter than P5 or 6; dactyl slender, longer than half length propodus...........................

...................................................................................... A. steenstrupi ( Bovallius, 1885) ­ Pereopod 6 & 7 shorter than P5. Pereopod 7; dactyl slender or curved nail, about half length propodus............................................................................................................. 2 2. Pereopod 7; length about half P5; dactyl slender .............. A. stebbingi Woltereck, 1909

­ Pereopod 7; length about three­quarters P5; dactyl a curved nail ....... A. danae sp. nov.