Branchinectidae Daday, 1910

Rogers, D. Christopher & Aguilar, Andres, 2020, Fig. 8 in Stiatoandricus nievesaldreyi Cuesta-Porta & Melika & Nicholls & Stone & Pujade-Villar 2022, Zoological Studies 59 (14), pp. 1-17 : 7

Branchinectidae Daday, 1910 (sensu Rogers &

Coronel, 2011)

Branchipodidae pro partim: Packard 1883

Branchinectidae Daday, 1910 ; Linder 1941; Tasch 1969; Belk 1982; Brtek & Mura 2000; Belk & Schram 2001; Maeda-Martinez et al. 2002; Rogers & Coronel 2011; Rogers 2013)

Diagnosis: Gonopods free and separated, extending ventrolaterally, with rigid base bearing a medial projection. Vas deferens not dorsally looped, lacking clearly defined seminal vesicles. Head lacking a frontal appendage. Second antennae never medially fused, widely separated by labrum, antennal appendages lacking. Male proximal antennomere often spinose, dentate and/ or tuberculate medially, and/or posteriorly, pulvilli and apophyses present or not. Second maxilla robust, elongated, well developed, with 5–30 apical rigid setae, and 3–5 anteriorly directed soft setae on the anteriomedial surface. Eleven pairs of thoracopods with each thoracopod bearing one prae-epipodite. Female thoracic segments may have rows or paired rows of lateral and/or dorsal projections. Body length ranging from 6 to 100+ mm. Two genera.