GNATHOSTENETROIDIDAE Kussakin, 1967

Kensley, B & Schotte, M, 2002, New species and records of Asellota from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda), Journal of Natural History 36, pp. 1421-1461 : 1422

Family GNATHOSTENETROIDIDAE Kussakin, 1967 Genus Maresiella Fresi and Scipione, 1980

Maresia Fresi, 1973: 302 .

Maresiella Fresi and Scipione, 1980: 313 ; Müller, 1992: 205.

Diagnosis. Cephalon with strong rostrum anteriorly concave or truncate; anterolateral corners rounded; antennal teeth lacking on anterior margin. Eyes dorsolateral, of three to eight ommatidia. Pereopod 1 in male with propodus longer than palm width, with band of elongate setae just mesial to anterior margin; posterior margin strongly setose; palm demarcated posterodistally by robust seta; palm straight, bearing row of oblique pectinate setae. Pereopod 1 in female, propodus less elongate than in male, lacking anteromesial row of elongate setae. Pereopods 2–7 biunguiculate. Pleopod 1 in male biramous, operculiform. Pleopod 2, rami fused in female, operculiform. Pleopod 2 in male with exopod short, lobate, terminal or subterminal on protopod; copulatory stylet of endopod widening distally to bilobed, setal fringed structure. Uropod biramous, with robust protopod.