Paranthura Bate & Westwood, 1866

Frutos, Inmaculada, Sorbe, Jean Claude & Junoy, Juan, 2011, The first blind Paranthura species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Paranthuridae) from the ' El Cachucho' Marine Protected Area (Le Danois Bank, southern Bay of Biscay), Zootaxa 2971, pp. 17-32 : 19

Paranthura Bate & Westwood, 1866

Emended diagnosis. Body pigmented or not. Prn7 half as long as Prn6. Pln 1–5 free and articulating, or 1–5 fused (or sutures immoveably indicated), or 1 free, 2–5 not indicated by folds dorsally. Plt with posterior margin of Pln6 indicated dorsally, delineated from telson. Pln and Plt articulating. Eyes well developed (grouped or scattered ommatidia) or absent. A1 flagellum of 3–10 articles. A2 flagellum less than 5 articles. Md molar absent; incisor acute, palp of three articles, palp article 3 with longitudinal row of 7 or more setae on apex or with fewer than 4 terminal setae. Mxp endite small or obsolete; palp free from basis and almost as long as basis, with articles 1–4 fused and 5 minute if visible. P1 subchelate; propodus inflated, with setae on mesial face evenly spaced along palm; palm without marginal short complex robust setae. P2–3 propodus much less inflated. P4–7 carpus roughly rectangular. P7 present on adults. Pl endopods with several margin setae. Pl1 exopod operculiform. Uropodal exopod narrowly leaf-shaped, or broad and more or less notched. Telson lacking statocyst.