Chauliopleona, Dojiri and Sieg, 1997

Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen, 2005, Review of the genus Chauliopleona Dojiri and Sieg, 1997 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea) and description of three new species, Journal of Natural History 39 (16), pp. 1177-1210 : 1208

Key to species of Chauliopleona

(comparison of cheliped on Figure 15 )

1. Cheliped with carpus slender, about twice as long as broad (see Figure 15 ).......................................... C. amdrupii ( Hansen, 1913)

– Cheliped with carpus very broad forming a carpal shield, carpus less than twice as long as broad................................................. 2

Figures

Figure 15. Chauliopleona chelipeds. (a) Ch. armata; (b) Ch. hastata; (c) Ch. nickeli; (d) Ch. amftae; (e) Ch. amdrupii; (f) Ch. paradoxa; (g) Ch. dentata. The chelipeds are not drawn to the same scale.