Family BASSEROLIDAE Brandt & Poore, 2003

Museums

Regional Maps

• Basserolidae Brandt, A. & Poore, G.C.B. 2003. Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 893-923 [918].

Introduction

Pereopod 1 lacks the complex robust setae along the propodal palm seen in serolids and pleopods 1–3 have a quadrate peduncle, not the transverse triangular form seen in serolids. The only genus was removed from Serolidae by Brandt & Poore (2003).

Diagnosis

Body almost evenly oval, flat, margin defined by head, coxal plates and pleon, slight interruptions between coxal plates and pleon; head medially fused with pereonite 1; pereonite 7 not visible dorsally, submerged; pereonites 5–7 ventral coxal plates meeting in midline. Coxal dorsal plates 2–6 delimited from tergite by suture, 4–6 weakly so; plate 7 not visible dorsally. Pleon with pleonite 1 visible dorsally, without epimera; pleonites 2 and 3 free, with prominent epimera; pleonal sternites 1–3 present. Pleotelson broad, laterally oval. Antennular and antennal peduncles flattened, not part of margin of body. Maxillula mesial endite short, with 1 seta, lateral endite with 5 or 6 distal setae. Maxilla mesial endite obscure, without setae, second endite with 1 simple seta, lateral endite with 2 simple setae. Mandibular incisor triangular; molar process absent. Maxillipedal palp of 1 short article. Pereopod 1 subchelate, propodus barely tapering, palm straight with row of well spaced robust setae. Pereopod 2 not sexually dimorphic. Pleopods 1–3 peduncles subquadrate, with terminal rami. Uropods attached on posterior margin of pleotelson; biramous, with mesially expanded peduncle.

General References

Brandt, A. & Poore, G.C.B. 2003. Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 893-923

History of changes