Kalliapseudes longisetosus Drumm, 2007

DRUMM, DAVID T. & HEARD, RICHARD W., 2011, Systematic revision of the family Kalliapseudidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea), Zootaxa 3142 (1), pp. 1-172 : 72-73

Kalliapseudes longisetosus Drumm, 2007

Kalliapseudes longisetosus Drumm, 2007: 1–9 , Figs. 1–6.

Type material. Holotype, ovigerous female ( AM P71872); allotype, adult male ( AM P73643); paratypes ( AM P71870, AM P71871, AM P40497, AM P40500, AM P40493).

Material examined. Holotype, allotype and paratypes.

Diagnosis (adult female). Rostrum produced and rounded, non–tapering. Pereonites lacking anterolateral apophyses; anterolateral setae as long as length of first pereonite. Pleotelson rounded posteriorly to rounded tip and lacking two long terminal plumose setae. Antennule first peduncle article lacking ventral spiniform setae; accessory flagellum of three articles. Antenna first peduncle article lacking simple seta on outer subdistal corner; third peduncle article with three plumose setae on inner margin; flagellum with six articles. Labrum complex lacking cusps. Terminal spiniform seta of mandibular palp approximately four times as long as broad. Female cheliped fixed finger cutting edge very irregular with spinules interspersed with one to several shorter spinules. Cheliped and pereopod 1 exopodite with two plumose setae. Pereopods 2 and 3 basis with simple setae longer than usual, nearly as long as basis. Digitiform lobe of pereopods 2 and 3 dactylus with> five sensory setae. Female pereopod

Type locality. Western Pacific , New South Wales, Australia (Fig. 1, number 17) .

Geographic distribution. Known from the type locality only.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished from the other congeners by the extremely long setae on the basis of the second and third pereopods and the armature of the female chela cutting edges.