Comprehensive Description
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Pereionotus thomsoni Stebbing, 1899a:417–418, pl. 35A
DISTRIBUTION.—Warm-temperate Australia, littoral.
Quasimodia Sheard
Quasimodia Sheard, 1936c: 464.
DIAGNOSIS (revised).—Body tall, anterior coxae not definitely splayed, pereonite 1 with large dorsal hump much larger than any hump on pereonites 2–5; rostrum obsolescent; mandible with stylocylindrioid molar; lower lip with inner lobes, if indeed present, forming small single plate; maxilla 1 lacking palp, inner plate foliate, pointed; plates of maxilla 2 separate; palp of maxilliped 4-articulate; gnathopods and pereopods simple; inner ramus of pleopod 3 very short, less than one-third as long as outer ramus, occasionally a vestigial asetose bud, peduncle produced medially; uropods 1–2 each with 2 rami; uropod 3 with 1 ramus.
TYPE-SPECIES.—Quasimodia womersleyi Sheard (1936c) (selected by J. L. Barnard, 1969a).
- bibliographic citation
- Barnard, J. L. and Drummond, M. M. 1978. "Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part III. The Phoxocephalidae." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-551. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.103
Depth range
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Littoral (0 to 30 m).
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