FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI A New Shrimp Genus (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Deep Atlantic and an Unusual Cleaning Mechanism of Pelagic Decapods BT AF Vereshchaka, Alexander Kulagin, Dmitry Lunina, Anastasia AS 1:1;2:1;3:1; FF 1:;2:;3:; C1 Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovski Prospekt 36, 117997 Moscow, Russia C2 PP SHIRSHOV OCEANOL INST, RUSSIA IN DOAJ IF 3.031 TC 3 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00732/84396/89407.pdf LA English DT Article CR ATIMO VATAE JASUS - MD 50 MD 208 / WALTERS SHOAL NORBI BO Antea Marion Dufresne Jean Charcot DE ;Caridea;phylogeny;morphology;new taxon;Oplophoroidea AB he deep sea is the largest biome on Earth and hosts the majority of as yet undescribed species; description of these may trigger a new mindset about evolution and function of characters. We describe and diagnose a new genus and species Sclerodora crosnieri sp. nov. belonging to the superfamily Oplophoroidea. We examined and coded 81 characters for morphological analyses and used four gene markers for molecular analyses involving the new taxon and representatives of all other genera of Oplophoroidea. Retrieved morphological and molecular trees were similar and suggested that the new genus is a sister group to Hymenodora and both form a clade sister to the rest of Acanthephyridae. We provide an amended key to all genera of Oplophoroidea. We found an unusual chelate structure on the dactyl of the fifth pereopod, tested and confirmed a hypothesis that this structure is common for the whole family Acanthephyridae. We suggest that this derived structure is linked to an active cleaning of branchia—a function associated with chelipeds in some other carid shrimps. Convergent chelate structures are likely efficient for cleaning branchia, whichever appendage is adapted for these functions. In Oplophoridae (sister to Acanthephyridae), cleaning function is carried out by well-developed epipods. PY 2021 PD NOV SO Diversity-basel SN 1424-2818 PU MDPI AG VL 13 IS 11 UT 000806920700001 DI 10.3390/d13110536 ID 84396 ER EF