Eisothistos Haswell, 1884

Kensley, B. & Schotte, M., 2000, New species and records of anthuridean isopod crustaceans from the Indian Ocean, Journal of Natural History 34, pp. 2057-2121 : 2071

Genus Eisothistos Haswell, 1884

Eisothistos Haswell, 1884: 677 ; WaÈgele, 1979: 2; Kensley and Schotte, 1989: 38.

Diagnosis. Eyes present, enlarged in male, or absent. Mouthparts reduced in male; in female anteriorly produced beyond rostrum; mandible lacking palp, molar and lamina dentata. Maxilliped slender, endite obsolete or lacking; palp of one to ®ve narrow articles. Pereonites sometimes elongate, giving body worm-like appearance in post-spawning females. Pleonites 1±5 free; pleonite 6 with free posterior margin, or fused with pleotelson. Pereopods 1±3 not subchelate, propodi slender, elongate. Pleopod 1, rami fused in juvenile and prespawning female, togethe r forming weak operculum, free in male. Tailfan indurate; uropodal exopod with strong apical spike and serrate margin. Telson lacking statocysts; with dentate posterior margin.