Stenotyphlops Stebbing, 1912

Gerken, Sarah, 2018, The Lampropidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of the World, Zootaxa 4428 (1), pp. 1-192 : 182

Stenotyphlops Stebbing, 1912

Stenotyphlops Stebbing, 1912: 162 ; 1913, 156–157.— Day, 1978: 143.

Type species. Stenotyphlops spinulosus Stebbing, 1912 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Carapace dorsoventrally flattened, marginal carina present, eyelobe present, pseudorostral lobes short, blunt. Antennule flagella well developed, accessory flagellum at least 0.5 length of main flagellum. Mandible navicular. Maxillule palp with 1 seta. Pereopod 1 slender. Pereopod 5 much shorter than pereopod 4 basis, reduced to 2 articles. Telson long, more than 2/3 length of uropod peduncles. Uropod endopod of 3 articles. Uropod exopod article 1 0.2 length of article 2, or less. Female with fully developed exopod on pereopod 2, rudimentary exopods on pereopods 3–4, without pleopods. Male with short antenna, extending to end of pereon, without penial lobes, with 3 pairs of pleopods.

Species. Stenotyphlops spinulosus Stebbing, 1912 .

Remarks. This genus was originally described by Stebbing in 1912, from a single specimen. In 1978 J. Day, with additional material, expanded the description to include the adult male. Both Stebbing and Day were working with material from off the coast of South Africa.