Lepechinelloides Thurston 1980

GenusLepechinelloidesThurston, 1980 Diagnosis. Body with large processes located along dorsal midline, never subdorsally; cuticular spines raised on peg-like projections. Urosome segments 2 and 3 coalesced. Head lacking eyes, rostrum, and cephalic teeth. Antenna 1 peduncle articles 2 and 3 subequal. Mandible: molar nontriturative; palp of one article. Lower lip inner lobes fleshy, well developed. Maxilla 1 palp biarticulate; maxilliped palp with four articles. Gnathopod 2 unguis of dactyl elongate. Peraeopods 3–4 carpus elongate. Uropod 1 rami immensely long (after Thurston 1980). Type species. Lepechinelloides karii Thurston, 1980. Species composition. Lepechinelloides karii Thurston, 1980; Lepechinelloides polymetallica sp. nov.; Lepechinelloides weddellensis Andres & Brandt, 2001.