Family KALLIAPSEUDIDAE Lang, 1956

Apseudes obtusifrons

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Introduction

Kalliapseudids are benthic, shallow-water filter feeders mostly from circumtropical and subtropical regions. About 48 species in 13 genera are known. Drumm & Heard (2011) have completed the most recent review of this family. Sieg (1986) united Cirratodactylidae and Kalliapseudidae, taxa now treated by some as subfamilies. This arrangement is different from that of Gutu (1972, 1981, 1996) and Gutu & Sieg (1999) who treated Cirratodactylus as a synonym of Psammokalliapseudes Lang, 1956. Hemikalliapseudinae was not accepted as a higher category by Sieg (1996) but is listed by Gutu (1996), Gutu & Sieg (1999) and Drumm & Heard (2011). There are four genera known in Australia with 14 Australian species. Drumm & Heard (2011) provided a key to genera and species.

Diagnosis

Pleon with 5 pleonites. Mandibular palp 1– or 3–articled. Maxilla 1 without palp. Epignath of maxilliped broad, cup-shaped. Inner caudodistal seta of maxillipedal endite not transformed into leaf-shaped spine. Pereopod 1 never uniform (not ambulatory), stronger than the others (fossorial), dactylus with curled setae or transformed into an aesthetasc-like structure. Pereopods 2–5 with or without aesthetasc-like structure or curled setae on dactylus. Pereopod 6 transformed, smaller than the others, with or without aestetasc-like structure or curled setae on dactylus.

General References

Drumm, D.T. & Heard, R.W. 2011. Systematic revision of the family Kalliapseudidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea). Zootaxa 3142: 1–172

Gutu, M. 1972. Phylogenetic and systematic considerations upon the Monokonophora (Crustacea - Tanaidacea) with the suggestion of a new family and several new subfamilies. Revue Roumaine de Biologie Zool. 17: 297-305

Gutu, M. 1981. A new contribution to the systematics and phylogeny ofthe suborder Monokonophora (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Travaux du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa" 23: 81-108

Gutu, M. 1996. The synoptic table and key to the superspecific taxa of recent Apseudomorpha (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Travaux du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa" 36: 135-146

Guţu, M. 2006. New Apseudomorph Taxa of the World Ocean: Crustacea, Tanaidacea. Bucharest, Romania : Curtea Veche 318 pp.

Gutu, M. & Sieg, J. 1999. Ordre des tanaïdacés (Tanaidacea Hansen, 1895). pp. 353-389 in Forest, J. Traité de Zoologie. Anatomie, systématique, biologie … Tome 7 Crustacés. Fascicule 3A Péracarides. Mémoires de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 19: 1-450

Lang, K. 1956. Kalliapseudidae, a new family of Tanaidacea. pp. 205-225 in Wingstrand, K.G. (ed.). Bertil Hanström. Zoological papers in honour of his sixty-fifth birthday November 20th, 1956. Lund : Zoological Institute 313 pp.

Sieg, J. 1986. Crustacea Tanaidacea of the Antarctic and Subantarctic 1. On material collected at Tierra del Fuego, Isla de los Estados, and the West Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Research Series 45: 1-180

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