Capropodocerus, Matsumoto & Kajihara & Kakui, 2023

Matsumoto, Yu, Kajihara, Hiroshi & Kakui, Keiichi, 2023, Capropodocerus, a new genus in Podoceridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Japan, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5336 (4), pp. 577-589 : 578

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.4.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B87600AF-C095-4361-9692-5E3B5B6A8E78

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8282539

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F87AA-FF9B-7A12-FF51-F9DBFBD9F87B

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scientific name

Capropodocerus
status

gen. nov.

Genus Capropodocerus gen. nov.

[New Japanese name: Warekara-doronomi-zoku]

Type species. Capropodocerus tagamaru gen. et sp. nov., by original designation.

Diagnosis. Podocerids having pereonite 1 cylindrical, longer than the head; pereonite 3 cylindrical, at least twice as long as pereonite 4; and two paired uropods.

Etymology. The genus name (masculine) refers to the caprellid-like shape of the anterior part of the body and podocerid-like shape of the posterior part and is derived from these two family names.

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