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Exspina typica Lang 1968

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Exspina typica Lang, 1968

(restricted synonymy and bibliography)

Exspina typica Lang,1968: 188 –192, fig 117, plate 8f–g. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970: 374 –375, 379, fig. 23. Kudinova- Pasternak, 1975; 222. Kudinova-Pasternak & Pasternak, 1978: 183, fig.7. Sieg, 1979: 189 –190, fig.1. Thurston et al., 1987: 11 –15, fig.1. Larsen, 2005; 260.

Remarks. A very charismatic and distinctive abyssal species, which has been linked to a possible symbiotic relationship with holothurians such as Amperima rosea, Deima validum and Oneirophanta mutabilis (Thurston et al 1987). Formerly part of the Family Leptognathiidae sensu Sieg, 1973, and latterly in the sub-family Leptognathiinae (Anarthruridae) it was excluded after a phylogenetic analysis (Larsen & Wilson 2002).

It is widely distributed in the world’s oceans (Thurston et al. 1987) including the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench, 2400–4829 metres (Kudinova-Pasternak 1970) but has not been recorded in the present study.

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Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2007, Family incertae cedis *, pp. 121-149 in Zootaxa 1599 on page 143, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178710

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Biodiversity

Genus
Exspina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tanaidacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lang
Species
typica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Exspina typica Lang, 1968 sec. Bird, 2007

References

  • Lang, K. (1968) Deep-sea Tanaidacea. Galathea Report, 9, 23 - 209.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1970) Tanaidacea of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench. Trudy Instituta Okeanologji, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 86, 341 - 381.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1975) Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) from the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic and Subantarctic. Trudy Instituta Okeanologji, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 103, 194 - 229.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. & Pasternak, F. A. (1978) Deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) collected in the Caribbean Sea and Puerto Rico Trench during the 16 th cruise of R / V " Akademik Kurchatov " and the resemblance between the deep-sea Tanaidacea of the Caribbean and the Pacific. Trudy Instituta Okeanologji. Akademija Nauk SSSR, 113, 178 - 197.
  • Sieg, J. (1979) Erstnachweis von Exspina typica Lang fur den Atlantischen Ozean (Tanaidacea). Crustaceana, 36 (2), 189 - 190.
  • Thurston, M. H., Billett, D. S. M. & Hassack, E. (1987) An association between Exspina typica Lang (Tanaidacea) and deep-sea holothurians. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U. K., 67, 11 - 15.
  • Larsen, K. (2005) Deep-sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Crustaceana Monographs, 5, 381 pp.
  • Sieg, J. (1973) Ein Beitrag zum Naturlichen System der Dikonophora Lang. Dissertation, Christian-Albrecht-Universitat Kiel, 298 pp.
  • Larsen, K. & Wilson, G. D. F. (2002) Tanaidacean phylogeny, the first step: the Superfamily Paratanoidea. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 40, 1 - 19.