Genus Pustulina Quenstedt, 1857

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Pustulina Quenstedt, 1857: 807 . — Feldmann et al. 2015: 3.

Phlyctisoma Bell, 1863: 34 . — Zittel 1885: 695. — Secrétan 1964: 74. — Förster 1966: 135.

TYPE SPECIES. — Pustulina suevica Quenstedt, 1857, by monotypy.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — Fusiform intercalated plate; inflated hepatic, cardiac and branchial regions; deep cervical groove, joined to dorsal margin and to antennal groove; deep, long gastro-orbital groove, originating as a slight median inflexion of cervical groove, with two divergent incurved branches, delimiting two gastro-orbital lobes; strongly inclined postcervical groove, inflected before joining hepatic groove, not joined to dorsal margin; short and shallow branchiocardiac groove, joined to dorsal margin and not joined to postcervical groove; concave hepatic groove, joined to cervical groove; shallow cardiac groove, straight, inclined forward, rising from postcervical groove, joined to dorsal margin; cephalic region with strongly tuberculate antennal row and distal antennal spine; carapace with tuberculate ornamentation; chelate P1-P3; P1 with strongly tuberculate ornamentation; short P1 propodus with fingers barely longer; P1 dactylus longer than P1 index.

COMMENTS

Pustulina shares some features with Enoploclytia . Both have an inflated branchial region, a well-developed gastro-orbital groove, usually divided in two branches, a short branchiocardiac groove not joined to the postcervical groove, a tuberculate antennal row, and usually a heterogeneous coarse ornamentation.