Family HIRSUTIIDAE Sanders, Hessler & Garner, 1985
Introduction
Hirsutia, type genus of this deepwater family is known only from a single specimen of one species from 1000 m depth in the Atlantic, damaged during examination, plus a moult which was lost, and a specimen in poor condition of a second species from 1500 m off south-eastern Australia. Gutu & Iliffe (1998) described a species in another genus, Thetispelecaris, from caves in the Bahamas but its placement in this family is questionable.
Diagnosis
Body with numerous setules and comb-rows. Head without rostrum or eyestalks. Paragnath long and slender. Mandible and palp slender. Pereopods 2–6 with exopods and "oostegites". Pleopods short, not articulating. Uropodal endopod of 5 articles.
General References
Gutu, M. & Iliffe, T.M. 1998. Description of a new hirsutiid (n. g., n. sp.) and reassignment of this family from Order Mictacea to the new order, Bochusacea (Crustacea, Peracarida). Travaux du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa" 40: 93-120
Sanders, H.L., Hessler, R.R. & Garner, S.P. 1985. Hirsutia bathyalis, a new unusual deep-sea benthic peracaridan crustacean from the tropical Atlantic. Journal of Crustacean Biology 5: 30-57
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |