Mixtacandona Klie, 1938

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Genus Mixtacandona Klie, 1938

Diagnosis of the genus

(after Mazzini et al. 2017). carapace 0.48–0.80 mm long, W <1 / 3 L. Calcified inner lamella of valves narrow, marginal pore canals rare. Valve shape in lateral view trapezoidal, triangular or elongated, surface smooth or slightly ornamented. A 2 of male with or without male bristles, aesthetasc Y conspicuously long (≥ 60 % of first endopodal segment). T 1 – respiratory plate with three filaments. Male T 1 – palps (clasping organs) only slightly asymmetrical. T 3 four – or five-segmented; protopodite with three setae (d 1, d 2, and dp), seta f often present, distal segment with one long (h 3) and two very short setae (h 1 and h 2). CR with short Sp. Hemipenis with a finger-shaped outer lobe, M-process absent. Eye pigment absent. Exclusively stygobitic species.