Pseudharpinia Schellenberg, 1931

Andrade, Luiz F. & Senna, André R., 2020, Four new species of Pseudharpinia Schellenberg, 1931 (Crustacea: Amphipoda Phoxocephalidae) from southwestern Atlantic and new records of P. tupinamba Senna & Souza-Filho, 2011, Zootaxa 4763 (4), pp. 501-537 : 502

Genus Pseudharpinia Schellenberg, 1931

Type species. Pseudharpinia dentata Schellenberg, 1931

Amended diagnosis. Head with dorsal keel or ventrolateral lines present in some species. Rostrum unconstricted. Eyes absent. Antennae 1–2 flagella unreduced in females. Antenna 1 peduncle article 2 short, with ventral setae widely spread. Antenna 2 peduncle article 1 ensiform, article 4 with one main row of facial stout setae, article 5 slender and short. Mandible molar pillow-shaped as a small hump, not triturative, bearing splayed stout setae; palpar hump small. Maxilla 1 palp 2-articulate. Maxilla 2 weakly setose. Maxilliped palp article 4 not elongated, with long and distinct apical nail. Gnathopods 1–2 small, similar, carpus short and free, with weak eusirid attachment; propodus ovatorectangular, weakly elongated and weakly setose anteriorly; palms acute. Gnathopod 2 slightly larger than gnathopod 1. Pereopods 3–4 carpus moderately to strongly setose. Pereopod 5 basis narrow. Pereopods 5–6 merus and carpus narrow. Pereopod 7 basis often setose anterodistally, posteroventral lobe often serrate; ischium enlarged. Epimeral plates 1–2 without long posterior setae. Urosomite 3 smooth. Uropod 1 peduncle elongated, without ventroapical spike or lateroapical enlarged seta. Uropod 3 outer ramus article 2 short, with 1 or 2 long setae apically. Telson with one to four apical or subapical setae on each lobe, often with dorsolateral setae.

Composition of the genus. Pseudharpinia abyssalis ( Pirlot, 1932) ; P. antarctica Ren in Ren & Huang, 1991 ; P. ayutlanta (J.L. Barnard, 1964) ; P. berardo Senna, 2010 ; P. birjulini ( Gurjanova, 1953) ; P. bonhami sp. nov.; P. brevirostris Chevreux, 1920 ; P. calcariaria Bushueva, 1982 ; P. cariniceps (K.H. Barnard, 1932) ; P. cinca (J.L. Barnard, 1961) ; P. dentata ( Schellenberg, 1931) ; P. excavata ( Chevreux, 1887) ; P. inexpectata Jarret & Bousfield, 1994 ; P. jonesyi sp. nov.; P. latipes ( Norman, 1900) ; P. macrospinosa Valério-Berardo & Piera, 2006 ; P. obtusifrons ( Stebbing, 1888) ; P. ovata Senna, 2010 ; P. pagei sp. nov.; P. planti sp. nov.; P. tupinamba Senna & Souza-Filho, 2011 ; P. vallini ( Dahl, 1954) ;