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Leptostylis G. O. Sars 1869
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Description
Leptostylis G. O. Sars, 1869
Type species. Diastylis longimana Sars, 1865 by subsequent designation (Lomakina, 1958).
Diagnosis. Female and subadult male. Carapace globular, pleon narrow. Pereopods 3–4 with rudimentary exopods in female. Telson short with no more than 2 pairs of lateral setae.
Adult male. Antennule greatly expanded, with multitudes of setae on peduncle article 3. Antenna not extending to telson.
Remarks. There are very few species of Leptostylis or the closely related Austroleptostylis in Australian and New Zealand waters.
New Zealand species. Leptostylis wisniewskiae n. sp., L. zealandiensis n. sp.
Notes
Published as part of Gerken, Sarah, 2015, New Zealand Diastylidae and Gynodiastylidae (Crustacea: Cumacea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4031 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4031.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289704
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Diastylidae
- Genus
- Leptostylis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cumacea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- G. O. Sars
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptostylis Sars, 1869 sec. Gerken, 2015
References
- Sars, G. O. (1869) Undersogelser over Christianafjordens Dybvandsfauna. Nyt Magazin fur Naturvidenskaberne, 16, 305 - 362.
- Lomakina, N. (1958) Cumacea of the Seas of the USSR. Opredliteli po faune SSSR, 66, 1 - 301.