Ameroculodes, Bousfield and Chevrier, 1996

Foster, John M. & Heard, Richard W., 2002, Ameroculodes miltoni, a new species of estuarine amphipod (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Oedicerotidae) from the southeastern United States, Zootaxa 28, pp. 1-12 : 11

A key to the species of Ameroculodes

1a Telson quadrate or truncate distally; epimeral plates truncate, quadrate or produced at the posteroventral angle............................................ 2

1b Telson rounded distally; epimeral plates broadly rounded distally........................................................... Ameroculodes miltoni , n. sp.

2a Pereopod 3, segment 7, nail longer than 1/3 length of segment 6; epimeral plate 2 produced posteroventrally............. Ameroculodes edwardsi (Holmes, 1905)

2b Pereopod 3, segment 7, nail shorter than 1/3 length of segment 6; epimeral plate 2 quadrate posteroventrally, not produced..................... Ameroculodes sp. (of Bousfield and Chevrier 1996; Bousfield, 1973, p. 97, plate 19.1)