Pustulina Quenstedt, 1857

Devillez, Julien, Charbonnier, Sylvain, Hyžný, Matúš & Leroy, Lucien, 2016, Review of the Early Cretaceous erymid lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Western Tethys, Geodiversitas 38 (4), pp. 515-541 : 531

Genus Pustulina Quenstedt, 1857

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Pustulina Quenstedt, 1857: 807 . — Feldmann et al. 2015: 3.

Phlyctisoma Bell, 1863: 34 . — Zittel 1885: 695. — Secrétan 1964: 74. — Förster 1966: 135.

TYPE SPECIES. — Pustulina suevica Quenstedt, 1857 , by monotypy.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — Fusiform intercalated plate; inflated hepatic, cardiac and branchial regions; deep cervical groove, joined to dorsal margin and to antennal groove; deep, long gastro-orbital groove, originating as a slight median inflexion of cervical groove, with two divergent incurved branches, delimiting two gastro-orbital lobes; strongly inclined postcervical groove, inflected before joining hepatic groove, not joined to dorsal margin; short and shallow branchiocardiac groove, joined to dorsal margin and not joined to postcervical groove; concave hepatic groove, joined to cervical groove; shallow cardiac groove, straight, inclined forward, rising from postcervical groove, joined to dorsal margin; cephalic region with strongly tuberculate antennal row and distal antennal spine; carapace with tuberculate ornamentation; chelate P1-P3; P1 with strongly tuberculate ornamentation; short P1 propodus with fingers barely longer; P1 dactylus longer than P1 index.

COMMENTS

Pustulina shares some features with Enoploclytia . Both have an inflated branchial region, a well-developed gastro-orbital groove, usually divided in two branches, a short branchiocardiac groove not joined to the postcervical groove, a tuberculate antennal row, and usually a heterogeneous coarse ornamentation.

Figures

FIG. 1. — Line drawings of carapaces and P1 chelae of Early Cretaceous erymid lobsters from Western Europe: A-C, Eryma Meyer, 1840: carapace (A), P1 chela form I (B), P1 chela form II (C); D-F, Stenodactylina Beurlen, 1928: carapace (D), P1 chela form I (E), P1 chela form II (F); G-H, Palaeastacus Bell, 1850: carapace (G), P1 chela (H); I-J, Enoploclytia M’Coy, 1849: carapace (I), P1 chela (J); K-L, Pustulina Quenstedt, 1857: carapace (K), P1 chela (L); M, Tethysastacus n. gen.: carapace. Abbreviations: a, branchiocardiac groove; b, antennal groove; b1, hepatic groove; c, postcervical groove; cd, cardiac groove; d, gastro-orbital groove; e1e, cervical groove; i, inferior groove; ip, intercalated plate; PoA, post-orbital area; ω, attachment site of mandibular muscle; χ, attachment site of adductor testis muscle. Line drawings: J. Devillez and S. Charbonnier.