Family STENETRIIDAE Hansen, 1905

Stenetrium adrianae

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• Stenetriidae Hansen, H.J. 1905. On the morphology and classification of the Asellota-group of crustaceans, with descriptions of the genus Stenetrium Hasw. and its species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(2): 302-331 [315].

  Type genus:

   Stenetrium Haswell, 1881.

Introduction

Stenetriids are flat elongate isopods up to 5.5 mm long, occurring worldwide in shallow temperate to tropical environments and occasionally in the deep-sea. The first pereopod is subchelate, and variously ornamented and enlarged relative to other pereopods. Maximum length is around 6.6 mm. The family was diagnosed in detail by Serov & Wilson (1995) and later revised by Serov & Wilson (1999), Bruce & Buxton (2013) and Bruce & Cumming (2015). An earlier work (Wolff, 1962) provided a key to species of Stenetrium, some now in other genera.

Diagnosis

Male pleopod 2 peduncle without distal extensions; appendix masculina with short ventrolateral pocket or groove originating at midlength; exopod inserting distomedially. Penes emerging midway between coxae and sternal spine, directed medially, distally rounded.

General References

Bruce, N.L. & Buxton, C. 2013. Review of the marine isopod crustacean genus Hansenium Serov and Wilson, 1995 (Asellota: Stenetriidae) from tropical Australia and Papua New Guinea, with description of a new genus. Zootaxa 3664(4): 445-478

Bruce, N.L. & Cumming, R.L. 2015. A new genus of Stenetriidae Hansen, 1905 (Asellota: Isopoda: Crustacea) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia and the southwestern Pacific. Zootaxa 3941(4): 485–508

Hansen, H.J. 1905. On the morphology and classification of the Asellota-group of crustaceans, with descriptions of the genus Stenetrium Hasw. and its species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(2): 302-331

Serov, P.A. & Wilson, G.D.F. 1995. A review of the Stenetriidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota). Records of the Australian Museum 47: 39-82

Serov, P.A. & Wilson, G.D.F. 1999. A revision of the Pseudojaniridae Wilson, with a description of a new genus of Stenetriidae Hansen (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 67-116

Wolff, T. 1962. The systematics and biology of bathyal and abyssal Isopoda Asellota. Galathea Report 6: 1-320, pls I-XIV

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