Description

Diagnosis. Rostrum broadly triangular. Cephalon and pereonite 1 fused; cervical groove distinct. Pereonites 2 – 8 shorter than pleonites; terga smooth. Pleonites with smooth terga; pleonite 6 unarmed or with short spines along posterior margin. Telson longitudinally subquadrate to subtriangular, dorsoventrallY flattened, apex BlUntlY angUlar to sUBtrUncate. Eyes pedunculate. Antenna 2 with lamellar scaphocerite. Mandible with palp. Thoracopod 1 forming maxilliped; exopod liguliform; epipods present or absent. Thoracopods 2 – 7 endopod similar; 2 epipods; exopods 2 – 6 slender, flagellum multiannulate; exopod 7 simple, lamellate or absent. Thoracopod 8 without exopod or epipods. Pleopods 1 – 5 exopod mUltiannUlate. Pleopods 1 – 2 endopod modified as gonopods in males. Pleopods 3 – 5 endopod reduced or absent, simple. Uropodal rami lamellar, exopod with weak, partial diaeresis. Uropods lamellar, forming tailfan with telson.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Anaspidacea

Family: Anaspidesidae

Species: Anaspidesidae