Eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997

Lowry, J. K. & Kilgallen, N. M., 2014, A generic review of the lysianassoid family Uristidae and descriptions of new taxa from Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae), Zootaxa 3867 (1), pp. 1-92 : 18

Eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997

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Eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997: 69 .

Type species. Eclecticus eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997 , original designation.

Included species. Eclecticus includes 1 species: E. eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997 .

Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 peduncle without posterodistal lobe or spine; accessory flagellum not forming cap covering callynophore. Antenna 2 brush setae (in male). Mandible incisors large, convex; left lacinia mobilis a long slender peg; molar a setose tongue. Maxilla 1 outer plate setal-teeth a well developed 7/4 crown. Maxilla 2 inner plate significantly shorter than outer. Gnathopod 1 simple; coxa large, about as large as coxa 2 with a straight anterior margin; ischium long (length 2 × to 4 × breadth); carpus long (length 2 to 4 × breadth), dactylus with complex spination along anterior margin. Uropod 2 inner ramus with weak constriction. Uropod 3 outer ramus article 2 long. Telson entire .

Remarks. Eclecticus appears to be most similar to Nagada . They differ mainly in the gnathopod 1 dactylus (complex spines in Eclecticus and simple in Nagada ). Ichnopus also has the dactylus of gnathopod 1 with complex spination but Ichnopus has a deeply cleft telson (entire in Eclecticus ).

Distribution. Gulf of Mexico.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Eclecticus eclecticus Lowry & Stoddart, 1997, habitus, paratype female, AM P.40961; parts from holotype, female, 4.4 mm, AM P.41435; paratype, male 3.8 mm, AM P.41438, from the San Blas Islands, Caribbean Sea. Scale bars: gnathopods, pereopods, 0.2 mm; remainder, 0.1 mm.