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Table 2
A comparison of morphometric and meristic features of males of Brachiella species.
| Parameter | Species |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. malayensis n. sp. | B. thynni | B. elegans | B. quaternia | B. seriolae | |
| Angle between cephalosome and trunk | Right angle | In line | In line | Right angle | In line |
| Cephalosome length (CL) [mm] | 0.56 | 0.89 | 0.60 | 0.57? | 0.51 |
| Trunk length (TL) [mm] | 1.03 | 1.14 | 0.67 | Highly reduced | 0.51 |
| Total length [mm] | 1.59 | 2.03 | 1.27 | 0.57 | 1.02 |
| TL–CL ratio | 1.84 | 1.28 | 1.12 | – | 1.00 |
| Ventroposterior processes | Present | Present | Absent? | Absent? | Absent? |
| Dorsoventral processes (caudal rami) | Fusiform | Fusiform | Fusiform | Elongate, cylindrical | Fusiform |
| Antennulary segmentation | 4 | 4 | 4 | ? | 4 |
| No. of elements on antennary endopod tip | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Anteriormost seta on maxillulary palp | Developed | Developed | Reduced | Reduced | Reduced |
| Proximal process of maxillipedal corpus | Large | Large | Small | Small | Large |
| Fraction of imMXPs denticulate patch to segment size | > 1/2 | > 1/2 | ca. 1/6 | ca. 1/4 | ca. 1/5 |
| Attachment of male to female ventroposterior processes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reference | Present study | [25, 54, 65] | [16, 65] | [16, 21, 66], | [16] |
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