Oplophoridae Dana, 1852

Cardoso, Irene & Contents, Paulo Young Table Of, 2005, Deep-sea Oplophoridae (Crustacea Caridea) from the southwestern Brazil, Zootaxa 1031 (1), pp. 1-76 : 7

Family Oplophoridae Dana, 1852

Diagnosis: Rostrum immovable. Antennular flagella simple, without accessory filament. Mandible with palp; molar and incisor processes not conspicuously separated. Mandibles dissimilar. Maxilliped 3 elongate, not unusually expanded, five segmented, bearing well developed exopod. All pereopods with well developed exopod. Pereopod 1 to 3, at least, bearing strap like epipod with end piece extending perpendicularly into branchial chamber. Pereopod 1 and 2 with well developed chela and undivided carpus. Pereopod 3 to 5 not unusually long, carpus shorter than propodus. Pleopods with appendix interna. Probably all species capable of some form of bioluminescence (modified from Chace 1986).