Metambasia Stephensen 1923
- Dataset
- The Tryphosa group (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Lysianassidae
- genus
- Metambasia
discussion
Remarks. See remarks under Glorieusella.
distribution
Distribution. North Atlantic Ocean.
type_taxon
Type species. Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen, 1923, by monotypy. Included species. Metambasia includes one species: M. faeroensis Stephensen, 1923. Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 flagellum article 1 lacking robust seta on distal margin; accessory flagellum forming cap. Antenna 2 flagellum articles 3 – 5 slender in female, article 3 enlarged in male; articles 4 – 5 without brush setae on the anterior margin. Mandibular incisor slightly curved; molar with reduced column and convex triturating surface (button); palp attached midway. Maxilla 1 ST- 7 serrate along the entire curved medial margin; ST-D slender, apically cuspidate. Maxilliped outer plate with apical robust setae. Gnathopod 1 parachelate; coxa vestigial; carpus longer than propodus; propodus palm minute, acute. Pereopod 4 coxa with well developed posteroventral lobe. Uropod 2 inner ramus constricted. Uropod 3 rami plumose setae present in male, absent in female. Telson moderately cleft.
Name
- Homonyms
- Metambasia Stephensen 1923