Stachyops, Bird, Graham J., 2012

Bird, Graham J., 2012, Stachyops, a new nototanaid genus (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from New Zealand, with remarks on nototanaid and tanaissuid phylogeny, Zootaxa 3572, pp. 1-10 : 2

Stachyops n. gen.

Diagnosis. Nototanaid, female with pleon epimera with long seta. Antennule article-2 without aesthetascs. Mandible molar narrow, with coronate-spinose piercing-crushing tip. Maxilliped bases partly unfused, extending distally over endites, with long seta; endites strongly flared, with two distal tubercles and distomesial seta; palp article-2 with long inner seta. Cheliped sclerite [triangular] extending to posterior margin of cephalothorax; basis with long posterior lobe; carpus with one inferior seta; palm superior and inferior margins parallel, propodus with one inferior seta. Pereopods 1–3 merus naked; pereopods 2–3 carpus with two inferodistal spines only. Pereopods 4–6 carpus with three spines and one seta; propodus with superior PSS (not pereopod-6), superodistal spine shorter than dactylus; unguis just shorter than dactylus. Pereopod-6 propodus with three superodistal spines. Pleopod endopod without mid-superior seta. Uropod rami two-segmented. Male unknown.

Etymology. From Greek stachys, meaning ‘ear of grain’ or ‘pointed’, with ops, ‘eye’.

Gender. Male.

Type species. Stachyops sebparri n.sp., by monotypy.

Remarks. These follow those on the new species described below.