Published June 30, 2011 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Fuegiphoxus

  • 1. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia ", Invertebrados, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C 1405 DJR, Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, C 1428 EHA, Buenos Aires (Argentina) ichiesa @ macn. gov. ar
  • 2. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia ", Invertebrados, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C 1405 DJR, Buenos Aires (Argentina) galonso @ macn. gov. ar

Description

KEY TO THE SPECIES OF FUEGIPHOXUS (EMEND. AFTER BARNARD & BARNARD 1980)

1. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner with moderate acute hook; pereopod 7, basis almost reaching apex of carpus; maxilliped, inner plate with two thick apical robust setae........................................................................................................................... F. uncinatus

— Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner rounded or broadly quadrate; pereopod 7, basis not reaching apex of carpus; maxilliped, inner plate with one thick apical robust seta....... 2

2. Gnathopod 2, carpus elongate, subequal in length to propodus............................................................................................................................ F. abjectus (only male known)

— Gnathopod 2, carpus short, less than half propodus length........................................ 3

3. Epimera 1-2 with small posteroventral tooth; facial setal formula on article 4 of antenna 2 = 4-4-1; urosome small; uropod 3 short..................................................... F. inutilus

— Epimera 1-2 rounded posteroventrally; facial setal formula on article 4 of antenna 2 = 3-3-2; urosome large; uropod 3 elongate.................................................... F. fuegiensis

Notes

Published as part of Chiesa, Ignacio L. & Alonso, Gloria M., 2011, Redescription and generic assignment of Fuegiphoxus uncinatus (Chevreux, 1912) (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Phoxocephalidae), pp. 219-233 in Zoosystema 33 (2) on page 230, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n2a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4546884

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References

  • BARNARD J. L. & BARNARD C. M. 1980. - Two new phoxocephalid genera, Fuegiphoxus and Phoxorgia, from Magellanic South America (Amphipoda: Crustacea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93 (3): 849 - 874.