Pseudoniphargus Dole-Olivier & Hafid & Piscart 2018
Creators: name: Dole-Olivier, Marie-Jose
name: Hafid, Hinda
name: Piscart, Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Pseudoniphargidae
Pseudoniphargus

description: Key to Pseudoniphargus species from Continental Africa and Mediterranean Islands
1 Uropod 1 peduncle without basofacial spine................................................................ 2 - Uropod 1 peduncle with strong basofacial spine............................................................. 5
2. Telson markedly notched................................................................................ 3
- Telson notch poorly marked................................................................ P. djemoi sp. nov.
3. Telson not elongated, quadrangular........................................................................ 4
- Telson elongated, longer than wide.................................................. P. macrotelsonis Stock, 1980
4. Uropod 3 sexually dimorphic; accessory flagellum of antenna 1 shorter than the first article of main flagellum; basis of pereopod 7 without posterodistal lobe............................................... P. sodalis Karaman & Ruffo, 1989
- Uropod 3 not sexually dimorphic; accessory flagellum of antenna 1 longer than first article of main flagellum; basis of pereopod 7 with posterodistal lobe........................................................... P. daviui Jaume, 1991
5. Main flagellum of antenna 1 more than 20-articulate.......................................................... 6
- Flagellum less than 20-articulate......................................................................... 10
6. Flagellum of antenna 2 more than 11-articulate.............................................................. 7
- Flagellum of antenna 2 less than 11-articulate............................................................... 9
7. Accessory flagellum of antenna1 longer than first article of main flagellum........................................ 8
- Accessory flagellum of antenna1 shorter than (or equal to) first article of main flagellum...................................................................................................... P. longipes Coineau & Boutin, 1996
8. Main flagellum of antenna1 more than 30-articulate; coxal plate 4 markedly excavate............................................................................ P. longiflagellum Fakher-el-Abiari, Oulbaz, Messouli & Coineau, 1999
- Main flagellum of antenna1 less than 25-articulate; coxal plate 4 not markedly excavate......................................................................................................... P. ruffoi Coineau & Boutin, 1996
9. Coxal plate 4 markedly excavate; telson poorly notched........... P. duplus Messouli, Messana & Yacoubi-Khebiza, 2006
- Coxal plate 4 not markedly excavate; telson notch absent................................... P. pedrerae Pretus, 1990
10. Accessory flagellum of antenna 1 longer than first article of main flagellum...................................... 11
- Accessory flagellum of antenna 1 shorter than first article of main flagellum...................................... 15
11. Coxal plate 4 poorly excavate........................................................................... 12
- Coxal plate 4 markedly excavate........................................................................ 13
12. Pereopod 7 basis posterodistal lobe present; uropod 3 sexually dimorphic.................................................................................................. P. obritus Messouli, Messana & Yacoubi-Khebiza, 2006
- Pereopod 7 basis posterodistal lobe absent; uropod 3 not sexually dimorphic............................................................................................................. P. maroccanus Boutin & Coineau, 1988
13. Telson quadrangular; Pereopod 7 basis elongated................................. P. italicus Karaman & Ruffo, 1989
- Telson not quadrangular............................................................................... 14
14. Main flagellum of antenna 1 more than 15-articulate; flagellum of antenna 2 = 10-articulate................................................................................................ P. romanorum Coineau & Boutin, 1996
- Main flagellum of antenna 1 less than 15-articulate; flagellum of antenna 2 <10-articulate; telson notch marked................................................... P. beninensis Lagnika, Messouli, Ibikounlé, Sakiti, Boutin & Coineau, 2016
15. Basis of pereopod 7 wide.............................................................................. 16
- Basis of pereopod 7 slender............................................................................ 17
16. Basis of pereopod 7 without posterodistal lobe.............................................. P. triasi Jaume, 1991
- Basis of pereopod 7 with posterodistal lobe........................................... P. africanus Chevreux, 1901
17. Basis of pereopod 7 without posterodistal lobe............................................................. 18
- Basis of pereopod 7 with a posterodistal lobe.............................................................. 19
18 Main flagellum of antenna1 =18-articulate; coxa 4 excavated; telson markedly notched; uropod 3 sexually dimorphic....................................................................................... P. pityuensis Pretus, 1990
- Flagellum of antenna 1 =12-articulate; coxa 4 poorly excavated; telson notch not strongly marked; uropod 3 not sexually dimorphic....................................................................... P. racovitzai Pretus, 1990
19. Telson quadrangular........................................................... P. adriaticus S. Karaman, 1955
- Telson broad........................................................................................ 20
20. Telson notch marked..................................... P. planasiae Messouli, Messana & Yacoubi-Khebiza, 2006
- Telson notch poorly marked............................................................................ 21
21. Pereopod 7 propodus elongated (length/width>10)....................................... P. mercadali Pretus, 1988
- Pereopod 7 propodus not elongated (length/width <10)........................... P. inconditus Karaman & Ruffo, 1989
description: Published as part of Dole-Olivier, Marie-Jose, Hafid, Hinda & Piscart, Christophe, 2018, A new groundwater species of Pseudoniphargus (Amphipoda: Pseudoniphargidae) fromAlgeria, pp. 125-139 in Zootaxa 4482 (1) on pages 137-138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1440508