Gastrosaccinae
Creators: name: Heard, Richard W.
name: Price, W. Wayne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Mysida
Mysidae

description: Key to the burrowing genera of the subfamily Gastrosaccinae and to the currently recognized species of Bowmaniella, n. g. and Coifmanniella, n. g.
1. Pairs of strong terminal spiniform­setae of telson usually not inserted closely to subterminal setae on either side; if close together, subterminal setae less than 2/3 length of terminal setae (Fig. 7 A–E) ........................................................................................... 2
­ Pairs of strong terminal and subterminal spiniform­setae of telson subequal (subterminal setae 2/3 or more length of terminal setae and inserted close together on either side (Fig. 4) .......................................................................................................................... 5
2. Endopod of male pleopod 3 small, uniarticulated (Fig. 7 F) .......................................... ......................................................................................... Haplostylus Kossmann, 1880
­ Endopod of male pleopod 3 multiarticulated (Fig. 7 G–I) ........................................... 3
3. All pleopods of female uniramous (Fig. 7 J)................................. Iiella Băcescu, 1968
­ Pleopod 1 of female biramous (Fig 8 A); pleopods 2–5 uniramous (Fig. 8 B) ............ 4
4. Male pleopod 3 with simple styliform exopod (Fig. 7 G); anterior margin of labrum with long median spine (Fig. 8 C) ..................................... Gastrosaccus Norman, 1868
­ Male pleopod 3 with complex exopod (Fig. 7 H); anterior margin of labrum with long median spine and pair of shorter lateral spines (Fig. 8 D) .............................................. ..................................................................................... Eurobowmaniella Murano, 1995
5. Male pleopod 3 simple, styliform; endopod uniarticulated or multiarticulated (Fig. 8 E) .................................................................................... Archaeomysis Czerniavsky, 1882
­ Male pleopod 3 complex, not styliform, endopod uniarticulated (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 6) ...... 6
6. Abdominal somite 5 with articulated posterodorsal process (Fig. 1); no small­spiniform setae distal to statocyst on uropodal endopod (Fig. 5 A, B) ................................... ......................................................................................................... Bowmaniella, n. g 7
­ Abdominal somite 5 without articulated postero­dorsal process; 2–16 small spiniformsetae distal to statocyst on uropodal endopod (Fig. 5 C–F) .......... Coifmanniella, n. g. 8
7. Exopod of male pleopod 3 of ultimate form with bow, inner branch with inner stylet fairly slender, reaching more than one­half length of distal article (Fig. 6 D, E)) ......... ............................................................................................. B. banneri (Băcescu, 1968)
­ Exopod of male pleopod 3 of ultimate form lacking bow, inner branch with inner stylet short and robust, reaching less than one­half length of distal article (Fig. 2 D;
Fig. 6 B) ........................................................................ B. dissimilis (Coifmann, 1937) 8. Telsonic cleft deep, approximately 1/3 or more length of telson (Fig. 4 E); [posterodorsal margin of carapace reflected anterodorsally as in Fig. 8 G] ...................................... .......................................................................................... C. merjonesi (Băcescu, 1968) ­ Telsonic cleft shallow, less than 1/5 length of telson (Fig. 4 C, D, F) ......................... 9
9. Posterodorsal margin of carapace not reflected anterodorsally (as in Fig. 8 F) ............. ......................................................................................... C. johnsoni (Tattersall, 1937)
­ Posterodorsal margin of carapace reflected anterodorsally (Fig. 8 G) ...................... 10
10. Lateral margins of telson armed with rows of 4–12 subequal spiniform setae (Fig. 4 D) ......................................................................................... C. mexicana (Tattersall, 1951)
­ Lateral margins of telson armed with rows of 16–22 spiniform setae, 6–8 larger interrupted by smaller ones (Fig. 4 F) .................................. C. parageia (Brattegard, 1970)
description: Published as part of Heard, Richard W. & Price, W. Wayne, 2006, Revision of Bowmaniella sensu B cescu, 1968 (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae: Gastrosaccinae): a taxonomic conundrum, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 1269 on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.173223