Pseudaeginella Mayer, 1890

Shin, So-Yeon, Lee, Chang-Mok, Heo, Jun-Haeng & Kim, Young-Hyo, 2023, First record of the genus Pseudaeginella Mayer, 1890 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidae) with a new species from Korean waters, ZooKeys 1169, pp. 163-174 : 163

Genus Pseudaeginella Mayer, 1890

Type species.

Pseudaeginella tristanensis (Stebbing, 1888).

Diagnosis.

Head with a dorsal projection; antenna 2, flagellum biarticulate, swimming setae absent; mandibular palp triarticulate, molar absent or vestigial, setal formula of 1-x-1; maxilliped, outer plate broader than inner plate; gnathopod 1, dactylus usually bifid; pereopods 3-4 present, uniarticulate, vestigial; pereopods 5-7 6-articulate; abdomen without appendage.

Species composition.

The genus contains 13 species, P. arraialensis Ros, Lacerda & Guerra-García, 2017, P. biscaynensis (McCain, 1968), P. campbellensis Guerra-García, 2003, P. colombiensis Guerra-García, Krapp-Schickel & Müller, 2006, P. freirei Siqueira & Iwasa-Arai, 2019, P. hormozensis Momtazi & Sari, 2013, P. inae Krapp-Schickel & Guerra-García, 2005, P. montoucheti (Quitete, 1971), P. polynesica ( Müller, 1990), P. sanctipauli Laubitz, 1995, P. telukrimau Lim, Azman, Takeuchi & Othman, 2017, P. tristanensis (Stebbing, 1888), P. vaderi Guerra-García, 2004.