Procampylaspis Bonnier, 1896

Petrescu, Iorgu, 2006, Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from eastern Bass Strait, the south-eastern Australian slope, and Antarctica in the collections of Museum Victoria, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (2), pp. 129-173 : 156

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.14
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10871026
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scientific name	Procampylaspis Bonnier, 1896
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Procampylaspis Bonnier, 1896 View in CoL

Procampylaspis Bonnier,1896:541 View in CoL .— Hale,1945: 214.— Băcescu, 1992: 251.— Stoddart and Lowry, 2003: 373–418.

Type species. Procampylaspis echinata Bonnier, 1896 .

Remarks. The genus is well-defined by the rake-like dactylus of maxilliped 2 and by a long ischium on pereopod 1. One species is known from Australia but three new species are described in this study.

Key to species of Procampylaspis from Australian waters

1. Carapace without dorsal tubercles P. australiensis sp. nov.

— Carapace with dorsal tubercles 2

2. Carapace with 1 dorsal tubercle P. sordida Hale, 1945

— Carapace with dorsal tubercles in 2 parallel rows (5 in female, 4 in male) P. spinifera sp. nov.