Epicepon Nierstrasz & Brender
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https://doi.org/ 10.6620/ZS.2021.60-04 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12823989 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E987A8-FFA5-FF9D-FCB6-4BD5F4BA5FC2 |
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Felipe |
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Epicepon Nierstrasz & Brender |
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Genus Epicepon Nierstrasz & Brender View in CoL à Brandis, 1931
Type species: Epicepon japonicum Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1931 by present designation.
Diagnosis: Female. Pereomeres without mid-dorsal projections. Pleomeres 1–5 with strongly elongated lateral plates lacking digitation on margins; five pairs of biramous pleopods, endopods much smaller than exopods; uropods well developed, uniramous.
Male: Pereomeres and pleomeres distinctly segmented. Pleon lacking midventral tubercles, pleopods as low rounded swellings on pleomeres 1–5; pleotelson with large distolateral lobes, lacking true uropods.
Remarks: Females of species in Epicepon can be distinguished from those of other keponine genera in having oostegite 1 not protruding forward, no mid-dorsal processes on any pereomeres, lacking well-developed digitation on the margins of the lateral plates or pleopods, and small pleopodal endopods and large exopods (Nierstrasz and Brender à Brandis 1931). Nierstrasz and Brender à Brandis (1931) did not designate a type species for Epicepon ; we select E. japonicum as the type species herein.
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