Family PHORATOPODIDAE Hale, 1925
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Gary C.B. Poore & Helen M. Lew Ton
Introduction
The single species, known from a two specimens from South Australia (Hale 1925), was redescribed by Bruce (1981).
Diagnosis
Body strongly vaulted. Head flat, anterolateral margins slightly incised; eyes dorsolateral, reduced. Pleonites 1–5 free. Antenna 1 larger than antenna 2, peduncle 4–articulate; antenna 2 peduncle 5–articulate. Frontal lamina indistinct, clypeus and labrum prominent. Mandible massive, incisor quadridentate; palp 3–articulate, molar process vestigal, lacinia mobilis fused as second cutting edge. Maxilliped with palp setose, endite flat, broad. Pereopods greatly dissimilar: pereopod 1 chelate; pereopods 4 and 5 with article 3–5 greatly expanded and flattened; pereopods 4–7 with dactyli reduced or absent; pereopod 7 with small coxa. Pleopods with all rami setose. Uropods inserted anterolaterally on pleotelson, mobile. The diagnosis follows that of Bruce (1981).
General References
Bruce, N.L. 1981. Redescription of the isopod (Crustacea) family Phoratopodidae. Beaufortia 31: 107-110
Hale, H.M. 1925. Review of Australian isopods of the cymothoid group. Pt I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 49: 128-185
History of changes
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