Pseudojanira Barnard, 1925

Kensley, B & Schotte, M, 2002, New species and records of Asellota from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda), Journal of Natural History 36, pp. 1421-1461 : 1436

Genus Pseudojanira Barnard, 1925 Pseudojanira Barnard, 1925: 406 ; Kensley, 1977: 251; Wilson, 1986: 351; Poore and Just, 1990: 520; Serov and Wilson, 1999: 72.

Diagnosis. Rostrum well developed, reaching to distal margin of rst antennular article, margins often dentate. Antennal spine of cephalon frontal margin reduced or absent. Eyes dorsolateral. No coxae visible in dorsal view. Pereopod 1 robust, subchelate, strongly setose in male. Pleon consisting of one dorsally free pleonite anteriorly plus pleotelson. Pleopods 1 and 2 in male not opercular. Pleopod 1 in male, rami distally free, rounded, fused basally to protopod; latter with two rows of ne setae anking medial depression. Pleopod 2 in male distally obliquely truncate. Pleopod 2 in female opercular. Pleopod 3 in both sexes opercular. Uropods short, inserted ventrally. Pleon consisting of pleonite 1 visible dorsally, lacking free lateral margins, pleonite 2 and 3 only visible ventrally, plus pleotelson.