Chelicorophium Bousfield & Hoover, 1997

Wongkamhaeng, Koraon, Nabhitabhata, Jaruwat & Towatana, Prawit, 2015, Corophiine amphipods of the genera Chelicorophium and Paracorophium from the lower Gulf of Thailand (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Corophiidae, Corophiinae), ZooKeys 505, pp. 35-50 : 39

Taxon classification Animalia Amphipoda Corophiidae

Chelicorophium Bousfield & Hoover, 1997

Diagnosis.

(modified from Bousfield and Hoover 1997) Epistome produced. Lower lip, mandibular lobes medium. Mandibular palp basic (type PI of Hirayama 1987). Maxilla 1, palp sublinear, longer than outer plate. Maxilliped, inner plate short, apex subacute, inner margin with basal spine; outer plate regular, inner margin strongly setose; palp segment 2 medium to long. Rostrum short. Antenna 2 strongly pediform and well developed (clasping) in both sexes; peduncular segment 4 with strong bidentate posterodistal process; segment 5 short, usually with median tooth near mid-point. Gnathopod 1 subchelate. Gnathopod 2 propod slender, not longer than combined merus and carpus; dactyl short, typically tridentate. Urosome segments not coalsed. Uropods 1 and 2 medium, peduncles broadening distally; rami short, straight; inner and outer margins often spinose or setose, apex little out-curved. Uropod 3, ramus longer than peduncle, slightly broadened, setose apically. Telson short, broad, spinose hooks at hind comers and dorsally. Coxal gills medium broad, sac-like, on pereopods 3-6. Brood lamellae short, sublinear, marginal setae not elongate.