Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1863

Coleman, Oliver & Lowry, James K., 2012, The genus Pereionotus (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Phliantidae) from Australia, Zootaxa 3486, pp. 63-88 : 64

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scientific name	Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1863
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Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1863 View in CoL

Pereionotus Bate & Westwood, 1863: 226 View in CoL .— Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 142.— Rabindranath, 1972: 33.— Lincoln, 1979: 142.— Ledoyer, 1986: 869.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 587.

Icridium Grube, 1864a: 209 .—1864b: 75 ( Icridium fuscum Grube, 1864a , b, monotypy, = Pereionotus testudo (Montagu, 1808)) View in CoL

Palinnotus Stebbing, 1900: 16 View in CoL ( Pereionotus thomsoni Stebbing, 1899 View in CoL , original designation).— J.L. Barnard, 1970: 226.— J.L. Barnard, 1972: 289 (key).

Diagnosis. Pereon depressed, coxal plates 1–4 somewhat splayed. Urosome flexed under pleon. Head flat with short rostrum. Maxilla 1 with scale-like inconspicuous palp. Maxilla 2 with basally fused plates. Maxillipedal palp 3-articulate. Pereopods simple. Basis of pereopods 5–6 wide and rounded and ventrally expanded, that of pereopod 7 without ventral lobe and narrower. Inner ramus of pleopod 3 slightly shortened. Uropod 2 uniramous in female, biramous in male. Uropod 3 without rami.

Type species. Oniscus testudo Montagu, 1808 , monotypy.

Included species. Pereionotus includes 10 species: P. alaniphlias ( J.L. Barnard, 1970) ; P. dieteri sp. nov.; P. hartmuti sp. nov.; P. h i r a y a m a i sp. nov.; P. h o l m e s i ( Gurjanova, 1938); P. japonicus ( Tzvetkova, 1967) ; P. natalensis ( K.H. Barnard, 1940) ; P. testudo ( Montagu, 1808) ; P. thomsoni Stebbing, 1899 ; P. yongensis sp. nov..