Munneurycope Stephensen, 1913

Mursch, Andre, Brenke, Nils & Wägele, Johann Wolfgang, 2008, Results of the DIVA­ 1 Expedition of RV “ Meteor ” (Cruise M 48: 1): Three new species of Munnopsidae Sars, 1864 from abyssal depths of the Angola Basin (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) *, Zootaxa 1866, pp. 493-539 : 526

Munneurycope Stephensen, 1913

Munneurycope Stephensen, 1913: 99 ; Wolff, 1962: 154. Eurycope Sars, 1864 (partim) Hansen, 1916: 138

Diagnosis of Munneurycope (modified from Wolff, 1962)

Streamlined Munnopsidae without sharply defined frontal area or rostrum, frons dorsally projecting between peduncular articles of antenna 1. Pereonite 1 (sometimes pereonite 1 and 2) longest of natasome. Pereonites 5–7 free and moveable and usually with a median furrow. Pleotelson not fused with pereonite 7, half­cylindrical in cross­section, caudally broadly rounded in dorsal view. First peduncular article of antenna 1 distally rounded, longer than wide or length subequal to width, with small or absent medial lobe. Chewing area of molar process strongly excavated, proximal margin with strong, serrated cusps. Epipodite of maxilliped narrow. Basis of pereopod 1 longer and mostly narrower than those of pereopods 2–4. Male pleopods 1 at most very moderately narrowed in the middle; pleopod 2 with robust stylet. Uropod biramous, with slender exopod and endopod.