Bentheogennema, BURKENROAD, 1936

BENTHEOGENNEMA BURKENROAD, 1936 View in CoL

Emended diagnosis: Integument membraneous; rostrum not reaching distal corneal margin, armed with one apical and one dorsal tooth; carapace with rudimentary branchiostegal spine set on anterior margin, hepatic spine absent; pleon with first to fifth somites dorsally rounded and sixth somite dorsally carinate; telson posteriorly truncate, with 0–3 pairs of movable dorsolateral spines and a single pair of apical spines. Eyestalks with long tubercle. First maxilliped with exopod not segmented distally; fourth and fifth pereopods with dactyl slender, not articulated. Petasma subrectangular, LA and grasping structure absent, PM as straight lamina between PI and PE, PE as entire unspecialized lash. Thelycum: S6 subtriangular, bearing a pair of posterior setose protuberances; S7 as simple undivided nearly trapezoid plate; S8 as simple subrectangular plate.

Species included: B. corbariae sp. nov., B. intermedia (Spence Bate, 1888) , B. stephenseni Burkenroad, 1940 and B. torbenwolffi sp. nov.

Type species: Gennadas intermedius Spence Bate, 1888 (type by original designation).