Lepidepecreella Schellenberg, 1926

Stoddart, H. E. & Lowry, J. K., 2010, Lepidepecreellidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters, Zootaxa 2634 (1), pp. 63-68 : 64-65

Lepidepecreella Schellenberg, 1926

Lepidepecreella Schellenberg, 1926: 281 . ― Stephensen, 1931: 6. ― Stephensen, 1935: 101. ― Gurjanova, 1951: 279. ―J.L. Barnard, 1969: 347. ― Ledoyer, 1986: 774. ― Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 494. ― Lowry & Stoddart, 1994: 171.

Paracyclocaris K.H. Barnard, 1930: 321 (type species Paracyclocaris bidens K.H. Barnard, 1930 ).

Type species. Lepidepecreella ctenophora Schellenberg, 1926 , monotypy.

Diagnosis. With the characters of the family.

Remarks. There is some doubt as to whether all species of Lepidepecreella have a uniramous uropod 3 with a large projecting spur on the peduncle or whether some have a biramous uropod 3. Stephensen (1931: 6) when synonymising Paracyclocaris K.H. Barnard, 1930 with Lepidepecreella commented that "... probably the single difference is uropod 3: with two rami (one very short) in Lepidepecreella , with one ramus in Paracyclocaris ." Although Schellenberg (1926) depicted a biramous uropod 3 for L. ctenophora (the type species of Lepidepecreella ) we have examined the type material and found that the supposed inner ramus is not articulated and is really a projection of the peduncle. It is likely that other species which have been reported or illustrated as having a biramous uropod 3 ( L. cymba and possibly L. charno ) have this same condition.

Species composition. Lepidepecreella now contains 11 species: L. andeep Berge, Vader & Lockhart, 2004 ; L. bidens (K.H. Barnard, 1930) ; L. charno J.L. Barnard, 1966 ; L. ctenophora Schellenberg, 1926 ; L. cymba ( Goës, 1866) ; L. emarginata Nicholls, 1938 ; L. nellae sp. nov.; L. ovalis K.H. Barnard, 1932 ; L. pamanzi Ledoyer, 1986 ; L. sarcelle Lowry & Stoddart, 1994 ; L. tridactyla Bellan-Santini, 1972 .