Systellaspis Bate, 1888

Cardoso, Irene & Contents, Paulo Young Table Of, 2005, Deep-sea Oplophoridae (Crustacea Caridea) from the southwestern Brazil, Zootaxa 1031 (1), pp. 1-76 : 64

Genus Systellaspis Bate, 1888

Systellaspis Bate, 1888: 757 ; Chace, 1986: 61; Holthuis, 1993: 39.

Hoplopasiphaea Yokoya & Shibata, 1965: 4 .

Diagnosis: Rostrum with more dorsal than ventral teeth. Carapace not carinate or denticulate dorsally; with or without lateral gastro­orbital carina extending from near orbit to near posterior margin; without branchiostegal groove and hepatic spine. Abdomen not dorsally carinate on all somites; somite 6 longer than somite 5. Telson tapering to sharply acute apex; spinose end piece flanked by a pair of lateral, long, stout setae. Scaphocerite without lateral teeth. Mandible not very dissimilar, incisor process armed in entire length. Pereopods with ischium and merus not broadly compressed. Pereopod 4 with epipod well developed, except for vertical component. Appendix masculina present on second pleopod. Eggs large and few (less than 50) (modified from Chace 1986).