Xenosella, Just, Jean, 2005

Just, Jean, 2005, Xenosellidae, a new family of Janiroidea (Asellota: Isopoda: Crustacea), for Xenosella coxospinosa gen. nov., sp. nov., from the marine bathyal of eastern Australia, Zootaxa 1085, pp. 21-32 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.170471
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6266014
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FC465-FF98-FFBF-873F-2938FC88D3A6
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Xenosella
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Xenosella View in CoL gen. nov.

Type species. Xenosella coxospinosa sp. nov., here designated.

Diagnosis. Xenosellidae without eyes or eyestalks. Coxae with elongate lateral spines. Antennula article 1 elongate, inflated at base. Mandible without palp, molar club–shaped, apically cleft, apices pointed. Male pleopod 1 straight, distally tapering. Uropods distodorsally on pleotelson.

Etymology. The genus name is derived from the Greek xenos, meaning stranger with the diminutive ending –ella, thus the ‘little stranger’.

Copyright notice

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Isopoda
Family	Xenosellidae

Specimens

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