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Akanthophoreus

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Akanthophoreus cf longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1864)

(restricted synonymy and bibliography)

Tanais longiremis Lilljeborg, 1864: Lilljeborg, 1865: 23 –25.

Leptognathia longiremis: G.O. Sars, 1896: 27, plate XII (= L. gracilis (Krøyer, 1842) not longiremis sensu Lilljeborg, 1864). Hansen, 1913: 69 –70, 74–76, plate VII figs 3a–e. Lang, 1957: 49, fig N. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1977: 125 [an uncertain synonymy].

Akanthophoreus longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1864): Sieg, 1986a; 23, 28, fig 10 (partim, not those derived from G.O. Sars 1896).

Paraleptognathia longiremis (Lilljeborg, 1864): Guerrero-Kommritz, 2004: 33 –38, figs 13–15 [an uncertain synonymy].

See Sieg (1983) for the very complex synonymy and bibliography up to date of publication.

Remarks. This is an Akanthophoreus species with a very unfortunate taxonomic history, largely because of the error in depicting A. gracilis as this species in the canonical account of Norwegian tanaidaceans (G.O. Sars 1896). The figure given by Hansen (1913) remains the best overall illustration of the species, along with Lang (1957) for cheliped and pereopod variation. Actually a fairly scarce species from shelf and shallow bathyal western European waters at the interface of cold Arctic and warmer Atlantic water-masses (Bird 2001; ined.), A. longiremis has been ( doubtfully) recorded from the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, 6770–6890 metres (Kudinova- Pasternak 1977). It is possible that the following species, A. undulatus n.sp., is the basis for this record, if Kudinova-Pasternak’s view of L. longiremis was that of G.O. Sars.

Notes

Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2007, Family incertae cedis *, pp. 121-149 in Zootaxa 1599 on page 132, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178710

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Biodiversity

Family
Akanthophoreidae
Genus
Akanthophoreus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tanaidacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Lilljeborg, W. (1864) Bidrag till kannndomen om de inom Sverige och Norrige forekommande Crustaceer af Isopodens underordnig och Tanaidernes familj. Inbjudingsskrift. University of Uppsala. Pp 31.
  • Lilljeborg, W. (1865) Bidrag till kannndomen om de inom Sverige och Norrige forekommande Crustaceer af Isopodens underordnig och Tanaidernes familj. Uppsala Universitets Arskrifter, 5, 1 - 32.
  • Sars, G. O. (1896) Isopoda. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, II, 1 - 270.
  • Kroyer, H. (1842) Nye Arter af Slaegten Tanais. Naturhistoriska Tidskritt, 6, 29 - 42.
  • Hansen, H. J. (1913) Crustacea Malacostraca, II, IV, The Order Tanaidacea. Danish Ingolf Expedition, 3 (3), 1 - 145.
  • Lang, K. (1957) Tanaidacea from Canada and Alaska. Contributions du Department des Pecheries, Quebec, 52, 1 - 54.
  • 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.
  • Sieg, J. (1986 a) Tanaidacea (Crustacea) von der Antarktis und Subantarktis. II. Tanaidacea gessamelt von Dr. J. W. Wagele wahrend der deutschen Antarktis Expedition, 1983. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Universitat Kiel, II (4), 1 - 80.
  • Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2004) A revision of the genus Paraleptognathia Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) and description of four new species. Zootaxa, 481, 1 - 63.
  • Sieg, J. (1983) Tanaidacea. Crustaceorum Catalogus Pars 6, H. E. Gruner & L. B. Holthuis (eds), Dr. W. Junk publishers, The Hague, 552 pp.
  • Bird, G. J. (2001) Tanaidacea of the Atlantic Margin: The AFEN surveys of 1996 and 1998. Unpublished report to the Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network and UK Offshore Oil Association, February 2001.