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Family Brcsiliidae
Key to genera and species
| Adapted from Chace and Brown, 19781
Family Bresiliidae 141
Rostrum armed ventrally with at least 1 small tooth; third maxilliped with terminal
segment slender, not flattened; first pereopod no longer than second, with elongate
fingers Pseudocheles chacei
Rostrum unarmed ventrally; third maxilliped with terminal segment broad, flattened;
first pereopod longer than second, fingers short and stout Discias
Genus Discias Rathbun, 1902
Key to species
[Adapted from Wilson and Gore, 1979]
Second abdominal somite with posterior dorsal spine D. serratirostris
Abdominal somites without dorsal spines (rostrum narrow with subparallel
margins) D. atlanticus