Dugastella Bouvier, 1912

Genus Dugastella Bouvier, 1912 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES. — Dugastella marocana Bouvier, 1912 ( Fig. 8 View FIG ) by monotypy.

INCLUDED SPECIES. — Dugastella marocana , Dugastella valentina ( Ferrer Galdiano, 1924) , Dugastella nitida (A. Milne-Edwards, 1879) †† n. comb.

DIAGNOSIS (FROM Sket & Zakšek 2009). — Paratyine genus with supraorbital and suborbital teeth, and with a pterygostomial carapace border jutting out (pterygostomial spine); dorsal rostral denticulation not continued posteriorly on carapace; maxilliped I exopodal lobe gradually narrowed distally, with terminal flagellum as long as width of lobe; pereiopods I-III or more with exopodites; mature male pereiopods III-IV not distally widened, dactylus not pectinate; pereiopod V dactylus comb-like; male pleopod I endopodite short, ribbon-shaped, with parallel side borders, part of distal border extended into comparatively wide appendix interna, which is approximately twice as long as it is wide; male pleopod II with sausage-shaped appendix masculina, which is set in the distal half with long straight spines (longer than appendix masculina diameter), moderately longer than appendix interna. All known species are epigean, with fully developed corneas.