Menigrates Boeck 1871
- Dataset
- A generic review of the lysianassoid family Uristidae and descriptions of new taxa from Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Lysianassidae
- genus
- Menigrates
description
(Fig. 24)
discussion
Remarks. Based on gnathopod 1 coxa and carpus and the moderately cleft telson Menigrates is most similar to Anonyx and Onisimus. Menigrates differs from both of these genera in the reduced number of setal-teeth on the outer plate of maxilla 1 and the weakly subchelate gnathopod 1.
type_taxon
Type species. Anonyx obtusifrons Boeck, 1861, monotypy. Included species. Menigrates includes five taxa: M. angustipes Gurjanova, 1962; M. maslovi Bryazgin, 1974; M. obtusifrons (Boeck, 1861); M. spinirami spinirami Gurjanova, 1936; M. spinirami japonica Gurjanova, 1962. Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 peduncle article 1 without anterodistal lobe; accessory flagellum with or without cap covering callynophore. Antenna 2 without brush setae. Mandible molar with reduced column and reduced triturating surface. Maxilla 1 outer plate with 7 well-developed setal-teeth in modified 7 / 4 crown. Maxilla 2 inner plate slightly shorter than outer plate. Gnathopod 1 weakly subchelate; coxa 1 large, about as long as coxa 2, subrectangular with concave or straight anterior margin; ischium short (length less than 2 × breadth); carpus short (length 1 to 2 × breadth); propodus margins tapering distally. Uropod 2 inner ramus not constricted. Telson moderately cleft, notched to emarginate.
Name
- Homonyms
- Menigrates Boeck 1871