Watlingia Gerken, 2010

Watlingia Gerken, 2010: 296 .

Type species. Watlingia cassis Gerken, 2010, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Carapace not dorsoventrally flattened, marginal carina absent, eyelobe present, pseudorostral lobes short, blunt. Antennule flagella well developed, accessory flagellum longer than 0.5 length of main flagellum. Mandible navicular. Maxillule palp with 1 seta. Pereopod 1 slender. Pereopod 5 longer than pereopod 4 basis. Telson long, more than 2/3 length of uropod peduncles. Uropod endopod of 2 articles. Uropod exopod article 1 less than 0.5 article 2 length. Female with fully developed exopod on pereopod 2, rudimenary exopods on pereopods 3– 4, without pleopods. Male with antenna extending past pereon, but not past pleonite 3, with penial lobes, with 3 pairs of pleopods.

Species. Watlingia cassis Gerken, 2010, W. chathamensis Gerken, 2010 .

Remarks. The maxillule palp with a single seta is only found in two other lampropid genera, Stenotyphlops and Farragolamprops, in both of which the uropod endopod is three articles. The two species of Watlingia are quite similar.