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Platysympus Stebbing 1912

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Platysympus Stebbing, 1912

Platysympus Stebbing, 1912: 143–144.

Platyaspis.— Sars, 1870: 158.

Type species. Platyaspis typicus Sars, 1870, by monotypy and original designation.

Diagnosis. Carapace dorsoventrally flattened, marginal carina present, eyelobe present, pseudorostral lobes short, blunt. Antennule flagella well developed, accessory flagellum at least 0.5 length of main flagellum. Mandible navicular. Maxillule palp absent. Pereopod 1 slender. Pereopod 5 longer than pereopod 4 basis. Telson less than 2/3 length of uropod peduncles. Uropod endopod of 3 articles. Uropod exopod article 1 0.2 length of article 2, or less. Female with rudimentary or absent exopod on pereopod 2, rudimentary or absent exopods on pereopods 3–4, without pleopods. Male with short antenna, not extending past pereon, without penial lobes, with 3 pairs of pleopods.

Species. Platysympus brachyurus (Zimmer, 1907), P. camelus Day, 1978, P. compressus Day, 1978, P. depressus Day, 1978, P.japonicus Gamô, 1975, P. muranoi Gamô, 1980, P. ovalis Gamô, 1987, P. pacificus Corbera, 2006, P. phylloides Day, 1978, P. quadrangulatus Gamô, 1987, P. tricarinatus Hansen, 1920, P. typicus (Sars, 1870).

Remarks. The most similar genera to Platysympus are Aplatysympus and Paraplatysympus, which are differentiated by the state of the maxillule palp and pereopod 5. In Aplatysympus pereopod 5 is longer than the pereopod 4 basis, as in Platysympus, but the maxillule palp is present and bears 2 setae. In Paraplatysympus the maxillule palp is present and bears 2 setae, and pereopod 5 is shorter than the basis of pereopod 4.

Notes

Published as part of Gerken, Sarah, 2018, The Lampropidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of the World, pp. 1-192 in Zootaxa 4428 (1) on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4428.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3769771

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lampropidae
Genus
Platysympus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cumacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stebbing
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Platysympus Stebbing, 1912 sec. Gerken, 2018

References

  • Stebbing, T. R. R. (1912) The Sympoda, Part 6. Annals of the South African Museum, 10, 129 - 176.
  • Sars, G. O. (1870) Beskrivelse af de paa fregatten josephines expedition fundne Cumaceer. Kuncl Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar, 9, 3 - 57.
  • Zimmer, C. (1907) Neue Cumaceen von der Deutschen und der Swedischen Sudpolar Expedition aus der Familien der Cumiden, Vaunthomsoniiden, Nannastaciden und Lampropiden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 31, 367 - 374.
  • Day, J. (1978) South African Cumacea, Part 3: Families Lampropidae and Ceratocumatidae. Annals of the South African Museum, 76, 137 - 189.
  • Gamo, S. (1975) A new cumacean Crustacea, Hemilamprops bigibba sp. n. from Sagami Bay. Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 22, 229 - 235. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 175904
  • Gamo, S. (1980) Platysympus muranoi sp. n. (Cumacea, Crustacea) from Japan. Yokohama National University. Yokohama National University, 27, 1 - 6.
  • Gamo, S. (1987) Two new cumacean crustaceans, Platysympus ovalis sp. n. and P. quadrangulatus sp. n. from Surga Bay. Yokohama National University, 34, 1 - 14.
  • Corbera, J. (2006) Lampropidae (Crustacea, Peracarida, Cumacea) from deep waters of New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 193, 143 - 162.
  • Hansen, H. J. (1920) The Danish Ingolf Expedition. Crustacea Malacostraca 4. Zoological Museum of Copenhagen University, 3, 1 - 86.