Altelatipes, CROSNIER & VERESHCHAKA, 2008

ALTELATIPES CROSNIER & VERESHCHAKA, 2008 View in CoL

Emended diagnosis: Integument membraneous; rostrum not reaching distal corneal margin; carapace with developed branchiostegal spine set on anterior margin, no hepatic spine; pleon with third to sixth somites dorsally carinate, fourth somite posteriorly entire, sixth somite posterodorsally straight; telson with posterior, triangular end-piece between apical spines, with two to three pairs of moveable dorsolateral spines and a single pair of apical spines. First maxilliped with exopod distally abruptly narrowing to a segmented distal part; second maxilliped greatly expanded, less than three times as long as broad; third maxilliped with subtriangular dactylus bearing 0–1 strong spine at tip. First pereopod with basis and ischium unarmed; fourth and fifth pereopods with dactyl slender, entire. Thelycum without median tooth on S6 or S8, no posterior setose protuberances on S6, S7 with a suboval protuberance projecting anteroventrally, no additional posteriorly directed scutum, S8 with tufts of sensory setae extending from deep invaginations. Petasma basally setose, greatly elongate with concave outer margin, PM serrate, PE not distally produced.

Species included: Altelatipes brevirostris ( Kikuchi & Nemoto, 1991) , A. carinatus (Smith, 1884) , A. falkenhaugae Crosnier & Vereshchaka, 2008 .

Type species: Altelatipes falkenhaugae Crosnier & Vereshchaka, 2008 .

Geographical distribution: North Atlantic and Caribbean, Indo-West Pacific.