Paramesochridae Lang 1944
Creators: name: Back, Jinwook
name: Lee, Wonchoel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Hexanauplia
Harpacticoida
Paramesochridae

description: Key to genera of Paramesochridae (amended from Boxshall & Halsey 2004)   1. P1 exopod 3-segmented, apophysis on the male P3 endopod................................... Remanea Klie, 1929   
— P1 exopod 1- or 2-segmented............................................................................ 2  
2. P3 endopod 3-segmented... (Diarthrodellinae Huys, 1987)..................................................... 3  
— P3 endopod 1- or 2-segmented... (Paramesochrinae Lang, 1944)................................................ 5  
 3. A2 exopod 3-segmented; endopod of P2 3-segmented....................................... Tisbisoma Bozic, 1964   
— A2 exopod at most 2-segmented; endopod of P2 2-segmented.................................................. 4  
 4. Distal endopodal segment of P3 with 3 setae............................................ Rossopsyllus Soyer, 1975   
 — Distal endopodal segment of P3 with 4 setae............................................. Diarthrodella Klie, 1949   
 5. P2 and P3 endopods 2-segmented................................................. Paramesochra T. Scott, 1892   
— P2 and P3 endopods 1-segmented at most.................................................................. 6  
 6. P1 endopod absent....................................................... Meiopsyllus Cottarelli & Forniz, 1995   
— P1 endopod present................................................................................... 7  
7. A2 exopod 1-segmented; P2 and P4 endopods 1-segmented.................................................... 8  
— These characters not combined......................................................................... 10  
 8. P1 endopod represent by unarmed lobe..................................................... Kunzia Wells, 1967   
— P1 endopod 2-segmented.............................................................................. 9  
 9. Distal segment of P2 and P3 exopod with 2 setae................. Wellsopsyllus Kunz, 1981 * & Scottopsyllus Kunz, 1962   
 — Distal segment of P2 and P3 exopod with 3–4 setae....................................... Emertonia Wilson, 1932   
 10. Body dorsoventrally compressed, P4 exopod 1-segmented................................. Caligopsyllus Kunz, 1975   
— Body cylindrical, P4 exopod 2- or 3-segmented at least...................................................... 11  
 11. P4 endopod absent or represent by 1 seta............................................... Apodopsyllus Kunz, 1962   
— P4 endopod present................................................................................... 12  
 12. P4 exopod 2-segmented................................................................. Biuncus Huys, 1996   
 — P4 exopod 3-segmented......................................................... Leptopsyllus T. Scott, 1894 **
description: Published as part of Back, Jinwook & Lee, Wonchoel, 2012, Two new species of Apodopsyllus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 128-145 in Zootaxa 3368 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3368.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5252198