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Issue: Vol. 4021 No. 2: 25 Sept. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.6
Page range: 351–367
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 12

Revision of the cirolanid isopod genus Odysseylana Malyutina, 1995 (Crustacea) with description of two new species from Singapore

College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811 AUSTRALIA. College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811 AUSTRALIA. Museum of Tropical Queensland, Queensland Museum, 70–102 Flinders Street, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 4810; and Water Research Group (Ecology), Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa. Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Gedung Widyasatwaloka, Cibinong Science Center, Jl Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811 AUSTRALIA. Museum of Tropical Queensland, Queensland Museum, 70–102 Flinders Street, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 4810; and Water Research Group (Ecology), Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.
Crustacea Odysseylana Parilcirolana Singapore Indo-Malayan region

Abstract

The genus Odysseylana Malyutina, 1995 is revised and a new diagnosis presented; two new species from Singapore are described: Odysseylana sakijang sp. nov. and Odysseylana temasek sp. nov. The monotypic genus Parilcirolana Yu & Li, 2001, is placed in synonymy, bringing total number of species in Odysseylana to four including the type species Odysseylana sirenkoi Malyutina, 1995 and Odysseylana setosa (Yu & Li, 2001) comb. nov. The genus is known only from coastal waters from Singapore to off Macau, western Pacific. The principal distinguishing character of Odysseylana are an elongate body shape (2.9–3.5 long as greatest width), head without a rostral point, pentagonal and flat frontal lamina; antenna peduncle articles 1–3 short, 4 and 5 subequal in length and longest; and pleopod 1 peduncle quadrate, and a slender pleopod 1 endopod.