Melphidippidae Stebbing, 1899

Marques-Junior, Paulo R. & Senna, André R., 2013, Description of a new genus and species of the family Melphidippidae Stebbing, 1899 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the deep waters of Brazil, Zootaxa 3641 (4), pp. 463-475 : 464

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.4.11
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F38E9358-F51E-428B-8FCC-3CEEFC843C5C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146338
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FF02A527-FF84-FF8A-29AC-FBA9FC975C7C
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scientific name	Melphidippidae Stebbing, 1899
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Treatment

Family Melphidippidae Stebbing, 1899 View in CoL

Emended diagnosis (emended characters in bold)

Cephalic lateral lobe slightly globular to subacute; maxilla 2 with thin inner and outer plates; anterior coxae short, being possible to present acute projections; basis of pereopods 5–7 not expanded posteroventrally; urosomites with ornamentations; outer ramus of uropod 2 not longer than the inner; peduncle of uropod 3 elongate. Modified from Barnard & Barnard (1983).

Type genus. Melphidippa Boeck, 1871

Composition. Melphidippa Boeck, 1871 ; Melphidippella Sars, 1894 ; Melphisana Barnard, 1962 ; Melphisubchela Andres, 1981 ; and Stebbingiella gen. nov.