Procrangonyx limpidus Hou and Li, 2003
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Procrangonyx limpidus Hou and Li, 2003
Procrangonyx limpidus Hou and Li 2003b, p 1179 –1188.
Material examined
One male and one female, a well of Beizhai Village , Qiaozi Town, Huairou District, 5 November 2002, collected by Shuqiang Li.
Diagnosis
Eyes absent, inferior antennal sinus indistinct; pereopods 3–7 slender and elongate; epimeral plates 1–3 sub-rounded, pleonites and urosomites with fine setae on dorsal margin; uropod 3 uniramous; telson apical margin divided by a shallow excavation.
Remarks
Procrangonyx limpidus is a subterranean species collected from a well in a farmyard. It is the first species of the genus Procrangonyx recorded from China and only the second species described. It differs from P. japonicus Uéno, 1930 in the following characters: inner plate of maxilla 1 with five plumose setae, inner plate of maxilla 2 with seven plumose setae, palp article 3 of mandible with A-setae, ramus of uropod 3 about five times as long as peduncle.
Hou ZE, Li SQ. 2003 b. A new subterranean amphipod of the genus Procrangonyx from Beijing, China. Crustaceana 76 (10): 1179 - 1188.
Ueno M. 1930. A new subterranean amphipod from Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 13 (1): 21 - 23.
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Procrangonyx limpidus Hou and Li, 2003
| Hou, Zhong-E & Li, Shuqiang 2005 |
Procrangonyx limpidus Hou and Li 2003b , p 1179
| Hou ZE & Li SQ 2003: 1179 |