Haploops Lilljeborg 1855

Genus Haploops Lilljeborg, 1855 Haploops Lilljeborg, 1855:135; Barnard, 1969: 132; Karaman, 1975: 57; Lincoln, 1979: 124; Bellan-Santini, 1982: 64; Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 90. Type species. Haploops tubicola Lilljeborg, 1855, original designation. Diagnosis. Flagella of antennae 1���2 with 5 or more articles. Article 3 of maxillipedal palp produced or inflated. Article 2 of pereopod 7 variable, usually narrow and with anterior and posterior margins parallel, or posterior oblique and article 2 expanding ventrally, or article 2 tapering, anterior margin of posteroventral lobe near junction with article 2 (?) setose or face of lobe with large setae. Telson varying from scarcely longer to as long as, or shorter than broad, cleft much more than half its length (Barnard & Karaman, 1991). Distribution. Marine, cosmopolitan, cold water, submergent, 6���3570 m (Barnard & Karaman, 1991).
Published as part of Kaim-Malka, R. A., Bellan-Santini, D. & Dauvin, C., 2016, On some Haploops species collected in the North Atlantic Ocean with the description of Haploops islandica n. sp. (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae) [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 8.] in Zootaxa 4179 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/260566
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