Eosymtes Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994

Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2022, Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Subfamily Eosymtinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994, Zootaxa 5125 (5), pp. 547-562 : 548-549

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.5.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6457360

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scientific name

Eosymtes Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994
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Genus Eosymtes Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994 View in CoL

Eosymtes Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994: 43 View in CoL .— Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: 49.

Type species. Eosymtes minutus Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994 View in CoL .

Species. Including the new species described here, Eosymtes View in CoL contains two species: E. minutus Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994 View in CoL ; E. magnumoculis View in CoL sp. nov.

Diagnosis (from Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994 with additions). Body smooth. Rostrum short. Lateral head lobe rounded. Eyes rounded or reniform. Antenna 1, peduncle 1 without antero-distal process. Antenna 2, peduncular segments 4 and 5 setose.

Mandible, row of raker setae short, with 4–7 pectinate blades; left lacinia 6–7-dentate; right lacinia blade-like. Maxilla 1, inner plate with two stout plumose apical setae. Maxilla 2, inner plate with two strong submarginal setae. Maxilliped, inner plate with 2–4 apical button spine-like setae; palp segment 3 not produced distally, broadened, dactylus slender, curved, micro-pectinate.

Coxal plates 1–4 medium, increasing posteriorly; posterodistally with one small cusp. Coxal gills medium, sac-like.

Pereopods 1 & 2 (gnathopods 1 & 2) medium, subsimilar; carpus shorter than propodus, posterodistal lobe shallow; palmar margin of propodus oblique, without medium tooth.

Pereopods 3–7 slender, medium long, dactylus elongate. Pereopods 5–7, coxae shallow, lobes rounded; bases broadly rounded behind, increasing in size posteriorly, hind margin serrate.

Epimeral plates 1–3, posterior corners acuminate, not produced. Uropod 3 slender, outer ramus not more than 2/3 the length of the inner ramus.

Telson linguiform, apex subtruncate or rounded, incised; with proximal keel.

Distribution. Marine waters of boreal part of Pacific Ocean ( Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994, Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004, Labay 2018).

Relationships. Eosymtes differs from Cognateosymtes by the following combination of character states ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 ): antenna 1, peduncular segment 1 without strong anterodistal processes; coxae 1–3, posterodistal cusps posterodistally with one small cusp, not multiple; maxilliped, palp segment 2 linear, inner margin densely setose; dactylus of pereopods 3–7 medium in length ( Labay 2018).

Remarks. Labay (2018) pointed out as one of the signs the setulation of outer and inner plates of maxilla 2: “ Cognateosymtes differs from Eosymtes by … outer and inner plates of maxilla 2 with numerous apical setae”. The following description of the new species Eosymtes magnumoculis sp. nov. shows that this feature is invalid.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Pleustidae

Loc

Eosymtes Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994

Labay, Vjacheslav S. 2022
2022
Loc

Eosymtes

Hendrycks, E. A. & Bousfield, E. L. 2004: 49
Bousfield, E. L. & Hendrycks, E. A. 1994: 43
1994
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