Published November 21, 2023 | Version v1
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Kalloleptochelia Gutu 2016

  • 1. Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106319, Taiwan & Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China & Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China & Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, 266237, China
  • 2. Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106319, Taiwan
  • 3. Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China & Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China & Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, 266237, China

Description

Genus Kalloleptochelia Guţu, 2016

Type species. Kalloleptochelia robusta Guţu, 2016

Remarks. Guţu (2016) established the genus Kalloleptochelia, which comprises four species: K. maiorina Guţu, 2016 (Réunion Island, western Indian Ocean), K. pauxilla Guţu, 2016 (Langkawi Island, Malaysia), K. robusta (Bunaken Island, Indonesia), and K. tenuicula (Makkaveeva, 1968) (Cuba). In these publications, only the male characteristics were described, although the first morphological description of the female Kalloleptochelia species was probably mentioned in the redescription of Leptochelia tenuicula (K. tenuicula) from Martinique Island by Guţu (2011). However, doubts were later raised regarding that particular species (Guţu 2016: 132).

According to Guţu (2016: 132), the males of Kalloleptochelia species share similarities with those of Alloleptochelia, but they can be distinguished by certain distinct features: 1) the antennule peduncle article-1 is no longer than the carapace (longer than the carapace in Alloleptochelia species); 2) the cheliped is shorter than the body (at least as long as the body in Alloleptochelia species); 3) both the fixed finger and the dactylus of the cheliped have numerous denticles along the incisive margin (only a proximal apophysis, a few proximal denticles or smooth on fixed finger in Alloleptochelia species).

Notes

Published as part of Tzeng, You-Wei, Wei, Chih-Lin, Ma, Lin & Li, Xinzheng, 2023, Three new species of Paratanaoidea (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from the South China Sea, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 5375 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5375.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10170958

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gutu
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Tanaidacea
Family
Leptocheliidae
Genus
Kalloleptochelia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Kalloleptochelia Gutu, 2016 sec. Tzeng, Wei, Ma & Li, 2023

References

  • Gutu, M. (2016) Systematic Novelties of the Enigmatic Universe of the Leptocheliids (Crustacea: Tanaidacea). ePublishers, Bucharest.
  • Makkaveeva, E. B. (1968) Vidovoi sostav I raspredelenie tanaidovyh i ravnonogih rakov v pribrezhnom raione o. Kuba. In: Anonymus, Issledovanija Tzentralno-Amerikanskih Morei. Naukova Dumka, 2, Kiev, pp. 99 - 104.
  • Gutu, M. (2011) A new genus and two new species of leptocheliids from the marine shallow waters of Indonesia (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha). Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle " Grigore Antipa ", 54, 43 - 61. https: // doi. org / 10.2478 / v 10191 - 011 - 0003 - 5