Scutocyamus, LINCOLN & HURLEY, 1974
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SCUTOCYAMUS LINCOLN & HURLEY, 1974 View in CoL
Diagnosis: Body small, stout. Antenna 1 very reduced, two-articulated; antenna 2 minute, one-articulated. Gnathopod 1 simple, palm straight; gnathopod 2 without palm, with a particular crevisse bearing a spine. Pereonites 3 and 4 very short; lateral gills uniramous; accessory gills lacking. Oostegite plates boot shaped.
Type species: Scutocyamus parvus Lincoln & Hurley, 1974 .
Remarks: Scutocyamus is a genus of small, temperate water dolphins, and its distribution is largely unknown. Scutocyamus parvus was reported from the white-beaked dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris from the North Sea, and later on, S. antipodensis was described from Hector’s dolphins Cephalorhynchus hectori from New Zealand.
Species: Scutocyamus parvus Lincoln & Hurley, 1974 ; S. antipodensis Lincoln & Hurley, 1980 .
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