Janicella Chace, 1986

Cardoso, Irene & Contents, Paulo Young Table Of, 2005, Deep-sea Oplophoridae (Crustacea Caridea) from the southwestern Brazil, Zootaxa 1031 (1), pp. 1-76 : 39

Genus Janicella Chace, 1986

Janicella Chace, 1986: 43 ; Holthuis, 1993: 36, fig. 15.

Diagnosis: Rostrum with more dorsal than ventral teeth. Carapace not denticulate dorsally; without lateral gastro­orbital carina extending from near orbit to near posterior margin; branchiostegal groove present, not delimited by vertical groove; without hepatic spine. Abdomen dorsally carinate on somites 2 to 4; dorsal tooth on somites 3 to 6, the one of somite 2 distinctly strong; somite 6 longer than 5. Telson tapering to sharply acute apex; with spinose end piece. Scaphocerite with lateral teeth. Mandible similar, incisor process armed along entire length, molar process reduced. Pereopods with ischium and merus not broadly compressed. Pereopod 4 with epipod well developed except for vertical component. Appendix masculina absent on second pleopod. Eggs large and few (nine or ten) (modified from Chace 1986).