Normanellidae
Creators: name: Kihara, Terue Cristina
name: Huys, Rony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Harpacticoida
Normanellidae

description: Key to species of Normanellidae
1 P1 endopod absent .............................................................................. Pseudocletodes vararensis Scott & Scott, 1893
- P1 endopod 2-segmented.............................................................................................................................................. 2
2 P1 endopod prehensile, with elongate enp-1 bearing inner seta and short enp-2; male P5 with 2 elements on endopo- dal lobe.......................................................................................................................................................................... 3
- P1 endopod not prehensile, enp-1 as long as enp-2 and without inner seta; male P5 with 4 elements on endopodal lobe......................................................................................................................... Paranaiara inajae gen. et sp. nov.
3 Antennary exopod with 3 setae; male P6 with 2 setae ......................................... Sagamiella Lee & Huys, 1999 … 4
- Antennary exopod with 4 setae; male P6 with 3 setae .................................................. Normanella Brady, 1880 … 5
4 Caudal ramus twice as long as wide, subrectangular ........................................................... S. aberrans (Bodin, 1968) 1
- Caudal ramus 2.5 times as long as wide, ovoid ........................................................ S. latirostrata Lee & Huys, 1999
5 P2 enp-2 with 2 inner setae.......................................................................................................................................... 6
- P2 enp-2 with 3 inner setae.......................................................................................................................................... 7
6 P4 enp-2 with 4 setae/spines (outer spine absent) .................................................................. N. reducta Noodt, 1955
- P4 enp-2 with 5 setae/spines (outer spine present) ............................................................ N. bifida Huys & Lee, 1999
7 P4 enp-2 with 4 setae/spines (outer spine absent) ............................................... N. mucronata sensu Marinov (1977)
- P4 enp-2 with 5 setae/spines (outer spine present) ..................................................................................................... 8
8 Caudal ramus with strongly developed, proximally dilated seta V, lacking internal fracture plane; rostrum distinctly pointed ......................................................................................................................................................................... 9
- Caudal ramus with normally developed or reduced seta V, always with internal fracture plane; rostrum of different shape ......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
9 Rostrum with short apical portion, distance between sensilla and apex about 18% of rostrum length; caudal ramus seta V distinctly lanceolate in proximal half and with flagellate distal third; female P5 exopod with middle and distal outer setae clearly separated, and distance between insertion site of middle outer seta and apex about 1/4 of outer margin length .......................................................................................................................... N. confluens Lang, 1965
description: Published as part of Kihara, Terue Cristina & Huys, Rony, 2009, Contributions to the taxonomy of the Normanellidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida): description of a new genus from the Brazilian continental shelf and re-assignment of Pseudocletodes vararensis Scott & Scott, 1893 (ex Nannopodidae), pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2233 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190348