Prethura Kensley, 1982

Shimomura, Michitaka & Naruse, Tohru, 2015, Two new species of Asellota (Crustacea, Isopoda) from coral reefs on Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan, ZooKeys 520, pp. 27-40 : 30-31

Taxon classification Animalia Isopoda Santiidae

Prethura Kensley, 1982

Prethura Kensley, 1982: 255; Wolff 1989: 181.

Type species.

Prethura hutchingsae Kensley, 1982; by original designation and monotypy.

Species included

Prethura hutchingsae Kensley, 1982, Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Prethura tuberculata sp. n., Iriomote Island, Ryukyu Islands (present study).

Diagnosis

(modified from Wolff 1989). Pleotelson subtriangular. Eyes well-developed, on short peduncles. Mandibular palp lacking. Coxal plates of pereonites 5 visible dorsally. Male pleopod 1 distally twisted, apically acute. Male pleopod 2 protopod enormously expanded. Uropods pedunculate, protopod enlarged, inserted ventrolaterally; medial ramus short. Female operculum pyriform.

Remarks.

The generic diagnosis is slightly modified from that of Wolff (1989). The significant change in this new diagnosis is to accommodate the presence of well-developed eyes on short peduncles.