Transkalliapseudes Drumm

DRUMM, DAVID T. & HEARD, RICHARD W., 2011, Systematic revision of the family Kalliapseudidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea), Zootaxa 3142 (1), pp. 1-172 : 144

Genus Transkalliapseudes Drumm and Heard, 2006

Transkalliapseudes Drumm and Heard, 2006a. Bamber, 2008: 147.

Type species. Transkalliapseudes spinulata Drumm and Heard , 2006a.

Diagnosis. Antenna, last peduncle article with double row of long, plumose setae. Labial palp with very elongate, acuminate inner tip. Inner lobe of moveable endite of maxilla with spiniform setae terminating in three cusps. Cheliped and pereopod 1 lacking exopodite. Pereopod 1 dactylus represented by sensory organ terminating in tuft of setae. Pereopod 2 and 3 dactylus with setose digitiform lobe. Pereopod 4 and 5 dactylus with few distal sensory setae. Pereopod 6 dactylus bearing single distal seta.

Geographic distribution. Eastern Indian Ocean (NW Australia); western Pacific (Moreton Bay, Australia).

Species. Transkalliapseudes banana Bamber, 2008 ; Transkalliapseudes spinulata Drumm and Heard, 2006b.

Remarks. Transkalliapseudes is the only kalliapseudid genus having numerous spinules on the bases of the pereopods.