Victoriopisa

Key to the species of Victoriopisa 1. Eyes weakly developed................................................................................. 2 - Eyes absent.......................................................................................... 5 2. Head with anteroventral cheek notch............................................... V. tinggiensis Lim et al., 2010 - Head lacking anteroventral cheek notch.................................................................... 3 3. Epimeral plate III posteroventral corner rounded...................................... V. ryukyuensis Morino, 1991 - Epimeral plate III produced to tooth...................................................................... 4 4. Propodus palm of gnathopod II with three prominences...................................... V. papiae Asari, 1983 - Propodus palm of ganthopod II lacking prominence.................................... V. chilkensis (Chilton, 1921) 5. Gnathopod II with excavated palm........................................................................ 6 - Gnathopod II with smoothed palm....................................................................... 7 6. Terminal article of outer ramus in uropod III dilated as oval-shaped.............................. V. multiartus sp. nov. - Terminal article of outer ramus in uropod III slender....................................... V. wadai Ariyama, 2015 7. Telson with distal spines.................................................... V. atlantica Stock & Platvoet, 1981 - Telson with no distal spines............................................................................. 8 8. Epimera I posteroventral margin bearing a few plumose setae........................... V. epistomata (Griffiths, 1974) - Epimera I posteroventral margin with no plumose setae...................................................... 9 9. Pereopod VII with broadly expanded basis and merus................................. V. australiensis (Chilton, 1923) - Pereopod VII with normal basis and merus.................................. V. marina Lowry & Springthorpe, 2005
Published as part of Zhao, Shuangyan, Liu, Cunqi & Hou, Zhonge, 2016, Description of a new species of Victoriopisa Karaman & Barnard, 1979 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eriopisidae) from China, with a key to the genus Victoriopisa, pp. 231-243 in Zootaxa 4097 (2) on pages 242-243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/263787
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