Calliopiidae Sars 1895
Creators: name: Myers, A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Calliopiidae

description: Calliopiidae Sars, 1895 b
Type genus. Calliopius Lilljeborg, 1865.
Diagnostic description. Body laterally compressed. Eyes well developed, round, ovoid, reniform, subrectangular or occupying most of lateral surface of head. Antennae 1–2 calceoli pontogeneiid (type 4). Antenna 1 shorter than, subequal in length to, or longer than antenna 2; peduncular article 1 subequal to, or longer than article 2; article 2 longer than article 3; article 3 shorter than article 1; peduncular articles 1–2 not geniculate; accessory flagellum present or absent; if present minute or scale-like. Antenna 2 peduncular article 1 not enlarged. Mandible molar triturative; palp symmetrical. Maxilla 1 basal endite setose along medial margin or apically setose; palps symmetrical. Maxilla 2 basal endite with or without oblique setal row. Labium inner lobes present, vestigial or absent. Coxal gills on pereopods 2–6, not stalked; sternal gills absent; sternal blisters absent; oostegites fringing setae simple. Gnathopod 1 simple or subchelate; similar in males and females (not sexually dimorphic); smaller (or weaker) than or similar in size to gnathopod 2; propodus palm with row or rows of simple or bifid robust setae or with one to several simple or bifid robust setae, or without robust setae along palmar margin. Gnathopod 2 simple or subchelate; similar in males and females (not sexually dimorphic); carpus not produced along posterior margin of propodus, projecting between merus and propodus. Pereopods 3–4 not sexually dimorphic. Pereopod 4 with well developed or without posteroventral lobe. Pereopod 5 shorter than or subequal in length to pereopod 6; coxa equilobate or with posteroventral lobe or with posterodorsal lobe or with large anteroventral lobe. Pereopod 7 subequal in length to, or longer than pereopod 5. Pleonites 1–3, pleonites 1–2 each with carina or each with dorsal carina or carinae or without dorsal carinae. Urosomites 1–3 free; without slender or robust dorsal setae. Urosomite 1 with or without large distoventral robust seta. Urosomite 2 without dorsal setae. Uropod 1 without basofacial robust setae. Uropod 3 not sexually dimorphic; biramous, with or without plumose setae; endopod subequal in length to, or longer than exopod. Telson notched, emarginate or entire; dorsal or lateral robust setae absent; apical robust setae absent.
Habitat. Marine, freshwater, epigean.
Included genera. Amphithopsis Boeck, 1861; Apherusa Walker, 1891; Bouvierella Chevreux, 1900 q; Calliopiella Schellenberg, 1925; Calliopiurus Bushueva, 1986; Calliopius Lilljeborg, 1865; Cleippides Boeck, 1871; Domicola Pretus & Abello 1993; Frigora Ren, 1991; Halirages Boeck, 1871; Haliragoides Sars, 1895 b; Harpinioides Stebbing, 1888; Laothoes Boeck, 1871; Leptamphopus Sars, 1895 b; Lopyastis Thurston, 1974; Lutriwita Lowry & Myers, 2012; Manerogeneia Barnard & Karaman, 1987; Membrilopus Barnard & Karaman, 1987; Metaleptamphopus Chevreux, 1911 a; Oligochinus J.L. Barnard, 1969 b; Oradarea Walker, 1903; Paracalliopiella Tzvetkova & Kudrjaschov, 1975; Pontogeneoides Nicholls,1938; Rozinante Stebbing, 1894; Stenopleura Stebbing, 1888; Stenopleuroides Birstein & Vinogradov, 1964; Tylosapis Thurston, 1974; Weyprechtia Stuxberg, 1880.
Distribution. Cosmopolitan.
description: Published as part of Myers, A, 2013, A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 3610 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3610.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/283309