Eurydice Leach, 1815

Anil, Pathan & Jayaraj, K. A., 2023, Two new species of Eurydice Leach, 1815 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the Andaman Islands, northern Indian Ocean, Journal of Natural History 57 (13 - 16), pp. 976-995 : 978

Genus Eurydice Leach, 1815

Restricted synonymy

Eurydice Leach, 1815: 354 , 370; Jones, 1971: 201; Bruce, 1986: 11; Brusca et al. 1995: 40; Schotte and Kensley, 2005: 1232; Jones and Nithyanandan, 2012: 3314.

Type species

Eurydice pulchra Leach, 1815 , by monotypy.

Remarks. Diagnoses to the genus have been given by Bruce (1986); Kensley (1989); Brusca et al. (1995); Schotte and Kensley (2005); Jones and Nithyanandan (2012). Diagnostic characters are the reduced frontal lamina that lacks a flat ventral surface, ventrally projecting beyond clypeus, antenna with four peduncular articles, antennula peduncle article 2 at right angles to article 1, maxilliped endite lacks coupling hooks and pleonite 5 with free lateral margin that are not overlapped by pleonite 4; the appendix masculina is inserted about halfway along the endopod mesial margin; the uropodal peduncle not produced along the mesial margin of the endopod.