PHRONIMOIDEA Bowman & Gruner, 1973
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:41C7D868-7BD9-46F4-94F1-EBEA427E2836 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5029960 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03931615-EC77-FFF6-FEDF-FC41FC52FA00 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
PHRONIMOIDEA Bowman & Gruner, 1973 |
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Superfamily PHRONIMOIDEA Bowman & Gruner, 1973 View in CoL
Diagnosis
Antennae 1 inserted on anterior surface of head; flagellum of males long and filiform, composed of enlarged first article (callynophore), usually with dense brush of aesthestascs medially, and a series of shorter distal articles; flagellum of females onearticulate. Antennae 2 also inserted on anterior surface of head; reduced to few articles, rudimentary or absent in females; in males flagellum is long, multiarticulate, similar to A1 (rudimentary in male Phronima sedentaria ). Pereopod 5 sometimes with large subchela. Developing eggs and young held in brood pouch underneath pereon, made up of oostegites on pereonites 2–5.
Seven families: Phronimidae , Phrosinidae , Hyperiidae , Dairellidae , Lestrigonidae fam. nov., Bougisidae fam. nov. and Iulopididae fam. nov.
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