Family PARAMUNNIDAE Vanhöffen, 1914
Abyssianira bathyalis
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Family PARAMUNNIDAE Vanhöffen, 1914
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5 March 2012 - Kelley Merrin, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
Introduction
Wilson's (1980) review is valuable, but he incorrectly referred to the family as Pleurogoniidae. The family concept was revised by Just (1990). Just & Wilson (2004, 2006, 2007) have revised several paramunnid genera. There are now 11 genera known from Australia with 36 species described. The diagnosis is adapted from Wilson (1980).
Diagnosis
Body broad, ovate, often with laterally projecting tergal and epimeral plates. Pleonite 1 free from remaining pleotelson. Head recessed into pereonite 1; eyes, if present, on lateral projections. Antenna 1 with at least 6 articles, with terminal aesthetasc. Antenna 2 shorter than body, reflexed laterally between peduncular articles 4 and 5; scale present or absent. Mandibular palp absent short or absent. Pereopod 1 prehensile, pereopods 2–7 ambulatory. Male pleopod 1 sagittate. Penes entering sperm duct internally. Uropod tiny, biramous or uniramous, peduncle usually absent. Anus covered by pleopods.
General References
Just, J. 1990. Abyssianiridae, a synonym of Paramunnidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) with two new species of Abyssianira from south-eastern Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 50: 403-416
Just, J. & Wilson, G.D.F. 2004. Revision of the Paramunna complex (Isopoda : Asellota : Paramunnidae). Invertebrate Systematics 18: 377-466
Just, J. & Wilson, G.D.F. 2006. Revision of Southern Hemisphere Austonanus Hodgson, 1910, with two new genera and five new species of Paramunnidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota). Zootaxa 1111: 21-58
Just, J. & Wilson, G.D.F. 2007. Revision of Austrosignum Hodgson and Munnogonium George & Strömberg (Paramunnidae) with descriptions of eight new genera and two new species, (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota). Zootaxa 1515: 1-29
Vanhöffen, E. 1914. Die Isopoden der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition 1901–1903 15: 449-598
Wilson, G.D.F. 1980. New insights into the colonization of the deep-sea: systematics and zoogeography of the Munnidae and the Pleurogoniidae comb. nov. (Isopoda: Janiroidea). Journal of Natural History 14: 215-236