96 ASELLOTA • PARAMUNNIDAE 



broad patch between eyes on cephalon, lateral bands on pereon, and anterior 

 and lateral patches on pleon. 



RECORDS Sapelo Island, Georgia, in tidal saltmarsh creek; Lake 

 Ponchartrain, Louisiana; Atlantic and Pacific locks of Panama Canal. 



Family Paramunnidae Vanhoffen, 1914 



DIAGNOSIS Body broad, ovate, often with laterally produced tergal or epi- 

 meral plates. Cephalon recessed into pereonite 1. Eyes, if present, on lateral 

 projections of cephalon. Antennule short, usually of six articles, with single 

 terminal aesthetasc. Antenna never longer than body. Mandibular palp pres- 

 ent or absent. Pereopod 1 prehensile; pereopods 2-7 ambulatory. Pleopod 1 

 6 distally sagittate. Uropods with sympod minute or absent; rami tiny. Anus 

 covered by pleopods. 



Munnogonium George and Stromberg, 1968 



DIAGNOSIS Eyes present on short lateral processes of cephalon. Antennal 

 peduncular scale present. Coxal plates visible on pereonites 2-7. 



Munnogonium wilsoni Hooker, 1985 

 Figure 43A,B 



DIAGNOSIS 6 0.86 mm, 9 0.98 mm. Frontal margin of cephalon broadly 

 rounded. Mandibular palp absent. Uropodal endopod twice length of ex- 

 opod. Lateral margins of pleotelson to uropodal insertion serrate, posterior 

 margin between uropodal insertions tapering to rounded apex. 



RECORDS Florida Middlegrounds, Gulf of Mexico, 55 m. 



Family Pleurocopidae Fresi and Schiecke, 1972 



DIAGNOSIS Cephalon broader than long. Eyes (or at least ocular peduncles) 

 present. Mandible with or without palp; molar truncate. Maxillipedal palp 

 articles narrow, less than half width of endite. At least coxae of pereonites 5- 

 7 dorsally visible. Pereopods 2-7 uni- or biunguiculate. Pleopod 1 in 6 not 

 sagittate. Uropod pedunculate, inserted laterally or slightly dorso- or ven- 

 trolaterally on pleotelson; biramous, or with one ramus fused with sympod. 



