Dynoides Barnard, 1914

Wetzer, Regina & Mowery, Gracie, 2017, Redescription of Dynoideselegans (Boone, 1923) (Crustacea, Isopoda, Sphaeromatidae) from the north-eastern Pacific, ZooKeys 646, pp. 1-16 : 4

Dynoides Barnard, 1914

Type species.

Dynoides serratisinus Barnard, 1914: 408; from South Africa by monotypy.

Remarks.

A diagnosis and comprehensive synonymy was provided by Li (2000). Readily recognizable characteristics include cephalon longer than broad, penes fused along proximal half of the length. Appendix masculina elongate, twice as long as endopod, strongly reflexed. Uropodal rami broad, lamellar, and subequal in length. The genus presently has ~20 species, is intertidal to shallow water, and is most speciose in the northern Pacific with twelve species. Additional species occur off Brazil, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Australia ( Li 2000). At present, the relationships between species remain unassessed.