Slater

Pseudodiploexochus Taiti, Paoli & Ferrera 1998

Type species: Diploexochus tabularis Barnard, 1932

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 3497

Conglobating animal usually of very small size (< 4 mm). Frontal ridge flattened without transverse groove, but sometimes with indentations or lobes corresponding to modifications of the distal margin of the telson. Complex interlocking structures on pereonal epimera 1 and 2. Inner lobe of pereonal epimera 2 projecting backward. Pereonites usually with bumps, spines or setae. Without pleopodal lungs and uropod expodites absent.

Species of this genus are widespread and cryptic, sometimes troglobitic and cannot yet be identified morphologically. All have highly restricted distributions.