Paralomis White 1856
Creators: name: Tiwari, Shivam
name: Padate, Vinay P.
name: Venugopalan, Vishnu K.
name: Cubelio, Sherine Sonia
name: Takeda, Masatsune
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Lithodidae
Paralomis

description: Key to the species of the genus Paralomis from the Indian Ocean
1. Carapace ornamented with unequal granules.......................................................... P. stella
- Carapace ornamented with spines or tubercles.............................................................. 2
2. Carapace ornamented with spines........................................................................ 3
- Carapace ornamented with tubercles...................................................................... 7
3. Carapace densely covered with slender erect spines.......................................................... 4
- Carapace sparsely covered with small scattered granules and short spines......................................... 5
4. Pereopod 2–4 meri long, slender, P4 merus at least 0.85 PCL; abdominal somites 3–6 densely covered with short spines and acute granule................................................................................. P. taylorae
- Pereopod 2–4 meri short, P4 merus <0.75 PCL; abdominal somites 4–6 with well-spaced granules and nodules.... P. poorei
5. Pereopod 2–4 dactyli shorter than dorsal extensor margin of respective propodi, carapace with well-spaced unequal-sized conical spines................................................................................. P. staplesi
- Pereopod 2–4 dactyli longer than dorsal extensor margin of respective propodi, carapace sparsely tuberculate or granulate, with several small conical spines............................................................................. 6
6. Pereopod 3 propodus length: height ratio> 6.2 in males,> 7.3 in females................................. P. birsteini
- Pereopod 3 propodus length: height ratio ≤ 5.5 in males, <5.6 in females............................. P. gowlettholmes
7. Rostrum with unpaired dorsal median spinule; carapace with spiniform tubercles........................... P. aculeata
- Rostrum without unpaired dorsal median spinule, carapace with papilliform, rounded or conical tubercles............... 8
8. Rostrum without basal spines; carapace with several rounded tubercles................................. P. roeleveldae
- Rostrum with basal spines; carapace with papilliform or conical tubercles........................................ 9
9. Carapace with papilliform tubercles...................................................................... 10
- Carapace with conical tubercles......................................................................... 11
10. Carapace with 2 spines on anterior branchial margins.................................................... P. ceres
- Carapace with several unequal-sized spines on branchial margins................................... P. investigatoris
11. Carapace pyriform, branchial regions distinctly inflated................................................. P. indica
- Carapace pentagonal, branchial margins weakly inflated................................................ P. danida
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Shivam, Padate, Vinay P., Venugopalan, Vishnu K., Cubelio, Sherine Sonia & Takeda, Masatsune, 2022, Paralomis White, 1856 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from India, with morphological variability in Paralomis indica Alcock & Anderson, 1899, pp. 301-329 in Zootaxa 5091 (2) on pages 326-327, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5843678