Parvochelus Brix & Kihara 2015
- Dataset
- Description of two ubiquitous species of Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the Northwest Pacific Basin east of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Desmosomatidae
- genus
- Parvochelus
diagnosis
Diagnosis (modified after Brix & Kihara 2015). Body length 3.3 – 4.0 pereonite 2 width, covered with cuticular folds. Pereopod I with carpo-propodo-chela, carpus length 2.3 – 3.7 width, longer than propodus, with subparallel sides, not or only slightly produced at basis of claw-seta, laterally of claw-seta with one long slender seta, seta length at least 0.5 claw-seta length. Pereopods II – VII slender (pereopods II – IV carpus length about 7.0 – 8.0 width), setal rows with up to 5 setae. Pleotelson without posterolateral spines, lateral margins serrated, posterior margin framed by cuticular membrane. Female pleopod II and male pleopod I covering ventral side of pleotelson including anus, male pleopod I with convex lateral sides, distolateral lobes not developed. Uropod uniramous. Composition. Parvochelus russus Brix & Kihara, 2015; P. serricaudis sp. nov.
materials_examined
Type species. Parvochelus russus Brix & Kihara, 2015, by original designation.
Name
- Homonyms
- Parvochelus Brix & Kihara 2015