NANNASTACIDAE

Campylaspis sp.


Diagnosis of the Nannastacidae


No free telson. Uropod inner ramus uniarticulate. Male pleopods absent. Number free thoracic somites rarely reduced. Exopods on maxillipeds and the following combinations of pereopods: in the male, 1-4, rarely 1-3 or 1-2; in the female, 1-2, rarely 1-3, absent from all, or absent from third maxillipeds and present on pereopods 1-2. Mandible naviculoid or with various degrees of reduction of the section dorsal to the molar. Branchial apparatus without gill plates, with or without gill supports.



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