Vemana Barnard, 1964

Hendrycks, Ed A. & Thurston, Michael H., 2025, Two new species of Vemana Barnard, 1964 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Vemanidae) from abyssal depths in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, Zootaxa 5653 (1), pp. 97-115 : 99

Vemana Barnard, 1964

Diagnosis. As for family. Palps of maxillae 1 asymmetric, left maxilla 1 palp article 2 broad and spatulate, with stouter apical spines. Uropod 2, lateral margin of peduncle with stout spines (except in V. lemuresa Barnard, 1967 ).

Remarks. The outer ramus or both rami of uropod 2 bear terminal spines in most species. In V. geyserensis and V. touzeti the spines appear to be inset into the apices of the rami as shown for Tryphosella in Lowry & Myers (2013, fig. 1F) and thus distinct from the apical spines which characterize the Senticaudata .