Potiicoara Pires, 1987

Pires-Vanin, Ana Maria S., 2012, The discovery of male Potiicoara brasiliensis (Crustacea, Spelaeogriphacea) with notes on biology and distribution, Zootaxa 3421 (1), pp. 61-68 : 62

Genus Potiicoara Pires, 1987

Potiicoara Pires, 1987: 226 ; Poore & Humphreys 1998: 722–723.

Diagnosis. Antennula and antenna with sexually dimorphic peduncles. Male antenna article six, mesial margin distally enlarged, covered with short spines at distal 2/3rds and bearing a row of setae. Female antenna without spiny or enlarged areas. Antenna scale reaching to peduncle article four. Maxillula inner lobe with two apical pappose setae. Maxilliped palp article one half length of article three, epipod thick, oval, as long as endite. Pleopod protopods similar in length to exopods. Male pleopod 1 with a proximal short lobe on exopod. Male pleopod 2 with basal article of exopod 1/3 shorter than distal article; mesial margin of appendix masculina curved basally, outer margin bare, apex globose. Uropod endopod shorter than proximal article of exopod. Telson as long as wide with sub-apical distal setae.