Medicorophium Bousfield & Hoover, 1997

Myers, Alan A., De-La-Ossa-Carretero, Jose Antonio & Dauvin, Jean-Claude, 2010, A new species of Medicorophium Bousfield, M. longisetosum n. sp. from the western Mediterranean, coast of Spain, Zootaxa 2450, pp. 53-60 : 54

Medicorophium Bousfield & Hoover, 1997

Diagnosis. Small to medium Corophium (1.5–6.0 mm). Head, rostrum short or rounded. Antenna 2 strongly to weakly sexually dimorphic, gland cone strong to medium strong. Gnathopod 1 very weakly subchelate. Gnathopod 2 merus fused along entire posterior margin of carpus, dactylus simple or weakly bidentate. Pereopods 3–4, basis little broadened, merus short to very short, dactylus slender, elongate. Pereopods 5–6 basis little broadened. Pereopod 7 slender, elongate. Epimeron 3 posterodistal margin rounded. Urosome segments separate. Uropod 1 peduncle slender, rami subequal, outer margin with robust setae. Uropod 2 not reduced. Uropod 3 ramus slender, longer and narrower than peduncle.