Bathypisella, Ortiz & Winfield & Ardisson, 2022

Ortiz, Manuel, Winfield, Ignacio & Ardisson, Pedro-Luis, 2022, A new deep-sea genus and species of Eriopisidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from the Gulf of Mexico, Journal of Natural History 56 (21 - 24), pp. 1109-1121 : 1111

Bathypisella gen. nov.

Diagnosis

Head not elongate, subrectangular; eyes absent; antennae without calceoli; antenna 1 peduncle article 2 longer than 1, article 3 the shortest; accessory flagellum articles 1–2 subequal in length, elongate, article 3 vestigial; pleonal and first two urosomal segments dorsally toothed; coxae 1–7 posteroventral notched, coxa 4 without posterior lobe; gnathopods palmar margin oblique; gnathopod 2 larger and stronger in male; uropod 1 peduncle with robust distal seta, an interramal spiniform process; uropod 3 biramous, outer ramus article 2 longer than inner, inner ramus subequal in length to peduncle width; epimera with posteroventral point; telson deeply cleft, each inner lobe margin with 1 robust seta midway; apical setae absent.

Type species

Bathypisella spinicaudata sp. nov. by monotypy (new combination, here selected; female gender).

Etymology

Named for the combination of Bathy (a prefix derived from the Greek ‘bathus’ meaning ‘deep’) with the suffix pisella (a Latin name from Eriopisella , the type genus of the second group of Eriopisidae ).