Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Forcipatia Larsen & Shimomura 2007

Description

Genus Forcipatia Larsen & Shimomura, 2007

Forcipatia Larsen & Shimomura, 2007: 19 –20 (diagnosis and key to species).

Leptognathia G.O. Sars, 1882 (partim): Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970: 363 –364. Larsen, 2005: 200.

Species included (Japanese waters, Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench species in bold): F. longimanus Larsen, 2005, Gulf of Mexico, 336–1875 metres; F. rotundicauda Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970.

Diagnosis (after Larsen & Shimomura). Female. Leptognathiid with cheliped fixed finger and dactylus elongated. Uropodal exopod uniarticulated.

Remarks. This genus is relatively easy to recognize owing to the cheliped morphology, which approaches that of some pseudotanaid taxa. The mandibular structure is very similar to the type genus Leptognathia, with a crenulate margin of both incisors. Unlike the previous leptognathiid genus (Biarticulata), Forcipatia is a small, monophyletic taxon.

Notes

Published as part of Bird, Graham J., 2007, Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976 *, pp. 61-85 in Zootaxa 1599 on pages 76-77, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178698

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Leptognathiidae
Genus
Forcipatia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tanaidacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Larsen & Shimomura
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Forcipatia 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. (1882) Revision af Gruppen: Isopoda Chelifera med Characteristik af nye herben horende Arter og Slaegter. Archiv for Matematik og Naturvidenskab, 7, 1 - 54.
  • Kudinova-Pasternak, R. K. (1970) Tanaidacea of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench. Trudy Instituta Okeanologji, Akademija Nauk SSSR, 86, 341 - 381.