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Family A

Major Group: Crustacea
Minor Group: Malacostraca
Order: Anaspidacea
Family:
Family A

Descriptive Features:

  • pleopods reduced, nearly absent
  • uropodal rami 2-segmented
  • 1st 2 pairs of walking legs enlarged and modified for grasping appendages
  • eyes absent
  • rostrum triangular
  • telson triangular
  • maxillula with palp
  • Total length:
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      Family A

      Taxonomic Checklist: 3 undescribed species

      Distribution: NSW

      Sensitivity Rating: none

      Functional Feeding Group: unknown

      Ecology: Instream habitat:
      Feeding ecology:
      Habit:
      Life history:

       

      Information Sources: Serov 2002
      Key to Species: none