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Biarticulata Larsen & Shimomura 2007

Description

Genus Biarticulata Larsen & Shimomura, 2007

(restricted synonymy and bibliography)

Tanais Latreille, 1831 (partim): G.O. Sars, 1877: 347, 370.

Strongylura G.O. Sars, 1882 (partim): Norman & Stebbing, 1886: 110, 116–117.

Cryptocope G.O. Sars, 1882 (partim): G.O. Sars, 1882: 50 –51. Hansen, 1913: 106.

Leptognathia G.O. Sars, 1882 (partim): Hansen, 1913: 82 –83. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1965: 82. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1976: 119. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1977: 120. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981: 102.

Species included (Japanese waters, Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench species in bold): B. arctophylax (Norman & Stebbing, 1886), NE Atlantic; B. distincta (Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981), Central Pacific, 1600–1900 metres; B. elegans (Kudinova-Pasternak, 1965), Bougainville Trench, 7974–8006 metres; B. greveae (Kudinova-Pasternak, 1976); B. mironovi (Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981), Central Pacific, 1735–2430 metres; B. parabranchiata (Kudinova-Pasternak, 1977), Palau Trench, 7000–7170 metres; B. parelegans (Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970); B. tuberculata (Hansen, 1913); B. voeringi (G.O. Sars, 1877), Arctic Ocean.

Diagnosis (after Larsen & Shimomura 2007). Female. Leptognathiid with cheliped fixed finger and dactylus simple. Uropodal exopod two-articled.

Remarks. Although deriving from a revision and splitting of the genus Leptognathia (Larsen & Shimomura op.cit.), this new genus is a pragmatic (and probably temporary) formation and is clearly polyphyletic, the only common feature among the largely disparate species being the bi-articulated uropod exopod. A significant problem faces potential revisers of Biarticulata, if no existing genus can accommodate transferred species, as no type species was designated.

Notes

Published as part of Bird, Graham J., 2007, Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976 *, pp. 61-85 in Zootaxa 1599 on page 75, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178698

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Leptognathiidae
Genus
Biarticulata
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tanaidacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Larsen & Shimomura
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Biarticulata Larsen, 2007 sec. Bird, 2007

References

  • Larsen, K. & Shimomura, M. (2007) Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. II. Tanaidomorpha from the East China Sea, the West Pacific Ocean and the Nansei Islands. Zootaxa, 1464, 1 - 43.
  • Sars, G. O. (1877) Prodromus descriptionis crustaceorum et pycnogonodorum, qvae in expeditione Norvegica anno 1876. Archiv for Matematik og Naturvidenskab, 2, 237 - 371.
  • Sars, G. O. (1882) Revision af Gruppen: Isopoda Chelifera med Characteristik af nye herben horende Arter og Slaegter. Archiv for Matematik og Naturvidenskab, 7, 1 - 54.
  • Norman, A. M. & Stebbing, T. R. R. (1886) On Crustacea Isopoda of the ' Lightning', ' Porcupine' and ' Valorous' Expeditions. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 12, 77 - 141.
  • Hansen, H. J. (1913) Crustacea Malacostraca, II, IV, The order Tanaidacea. Danish Ingolf Expedition, 3 (3), 1 - 145.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1965) Deep-sea Tanaidacea from the Bougainville Trench of the Pacific. Crustaceana, 8 (1), 75 - 91.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1976) Additional notes on the fauna of Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the deep water trenches. Trudy Instituta Okeanologji, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 99, 115 - 125.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1977) Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) from the deep sea trenches of the western part of the Pacific. Trudy Instituta Okeanologji, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 108, 115 - 135.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1981) Tanaidacea. In: Miranov A. V. [ed.] Benthos of the submarine mountains Marcus- Vecker and adjacent Pacific regions. Akademija Nauk SSSR, P. P. Shirshov Institute of oceanology, 94 - 112.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1970) Tanaidacea of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench. Trudy Instituta Okeanologji, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 86, 341 - 381.