Bateidae Stebbing, 1906

Ortiz, Manuel, Capetillo, Norberto & Lopeztegui, Alexander, 2025, The family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 (Crustacea, Peracarida) in tropical America with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5613 (1), pp. 153-164 : 155

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2FB8BE35-114F-4A97-8610-C87ECC6F0BBA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15216272

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0389334C-5612-FFB7-FF77-8E9AFD89018B

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scientific name

Bateidae Stebbing, 1906
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Family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Head rostrate; eyes large, occupying at least 1/3 of head surface; rostrum and cephalic lobe present; rostrum distally pointed or blunt. Body smooth or dentate dorsally. Antenna 1 accessory flagellum vestigial or absent. Mandible with molar and three articulated palp. Maxilla 1 inner plate conical with one small distal and seven inner marginal setae; palp two-articulate. Lower lip without inner plate. Gnathopod 1 degraded, only present coxa and feeble linear basis, both hidden by coxa 2. Gnathopod 2 subchelate; coxa 4 the largest; coxa 4 strong posterior lobe. Uropod 2 shorter than uropods 1 and 3 which are of similar length. Telson flat; cleft half way.

Composition. Genus Batea Müller, 1865

Diagnosis. As for the family

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

SubOrder

Amphilochidea

InfraOrder

Amphilochida

ParvOrder

Eusiridira

Family

Bateidae

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