Family KOONUNGIDAE Sayce, 1908

Koonunga crenarum [from Zeidler 1985]

© Copyright from Zeidler 1985.

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Introduction

The family comprises only three species, all restricted to Victoria, south-eastern South Australia and northern Tasmania.

Diagnosis

Rostrum broad. Thoracomeres of similar lengths to pleonites; pleonite 6 without row of long spines along posterior margin. Eyes sessile or absent. Antenna 2 without scaphocerite. Mandible with palp. Maxilla 1 with palp. Thoracopod 1 7-articled, not forming a maxilliped, with tubular exopod, with epipod. Thoracopods 1–6 with exopod; thoracopods 7–8 without exopod. Pleopods without endopod, with multiarticulate exopod; except in male where pleopods 1–2 interact as a petasma. Uropods with 1-articled rami. Telson subtriangular, with acute point, and forming tailfan with uropods. Seminal receptacle present in female.

References

Sayce, O.A. 1908. On Koonunga cursor, a remarkable new type of malacostracous crustacean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 1–15