Pseudharpinia Schellenberg, 1931

Senna, André R., 2010, A new genus and five new species of Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the south-east Brazilian deep sea, Journal of Natural History 44 (33 - 34), pp. 2075-2118 : 2100-2101

Genus Pseudharpinia Schellenberg, 1931

Diagnosis

Eyes absent. Cephalic dorsal keel present. Flagella of antennae 1 and 2 unreduced in female. Article 2 of antenna 1 shortened, ventral setae widely spread. Article 1 of antenna 2 ensiform; article 4 with one main row of facial stout setae; article 5 thin and short. Mandible, molar not triturative, pillow-shaped, bearing splayed, semiarticulate stout setae; hump of palp small. Maxilla 1, palp bi-articulate. Maxilla 2 weakly setose. Maxilliped, apex of palp article 3 not protuberant, dactyl weakly elongated, apical nail distinct, elongated. Gnathopods 1 and 2 small, similar, carpus short, free, with weak eusirid attachment, palm acute, propodus ovato-rectangular, weakly elongated, poorly setose anteriorly; gnathopod 2 slightly larger than gnathopod 1. Pereopods 3 and 4, carpus, posterior margin setose. Pereopod 5, basis narrow. Pereopods 5 and 6, merus and carpus narrow. Pereopod 7, basis strongly setose anterodistally, posteroventral lobe serrate, ischium enlarged. Epimeral plates 1 and 2 lacking long posterior setae. Urosomite 1 naked; urosomite 3 smooth. Uropod 1, peduncle elongated, without ventroapical spike, without enlarged lateroapical stout seta; rami continuously spinose to apex. Uropod 3, outer ramus article 2 small, with one or two long apical setae. Telson with one to four apical or subapical setae on each lobe, often with dorsolateral setae.

Type species

Pseudharpinia dentata Schellenberg, 1931 .

Composition

Pseudharpinia abyssalis (Pirlot, 1932) ; P. antarctica Ren, 1991 ; P. ayutlanta (Barnard JL, 1964) ; P. berardo sp. nov.; P. birjulini (Gurjanova, 1953) ; P. brevirostris (Chevreux, 1920) ; P. calcariaria Bushueva, 1982 ; P. cariniceps ( Barnard KH, 1932) ; P. cinca Barnard JL, 1961 ; P. dentata Schellenberg, 1931 ; P. excavata (Chevreux, 1887) ; P. inexpectata Jarrett and Bousfield, 1994 ; P. latipes (Norman, 1900) ; P. macrospinosa Valério-Berardo and Piera, 2006 ; P. obtusifrons (Stebbing, 1888) ; P. ovata sp. nov.; P. vallini (Dahl, 1954) .