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Akanthinotanais Sieg 1977

  • 1. Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 402, R. O. C. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3867 - 7215
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 402, R. O. C.

Description

Akanthinotanais Sieg, 1977

Type species. Akanthinotanais gerlachi Sieg, 1977 (designation by original description)

Diagnosis (after Larsen 2012; McLelland 2008). Female. Body 3.5 to 6.5 times longer than wide. Eye lobes present and often with visual elements. Antennule three-articled, without bifurcate seta. Left and right mandibles molar often simple, narrow, and pointed. Maxillule endite with eight or nine distal spines. Cheliped carpus with two ventral setae; fixed finger with one ventral seta. Pereopods 2–6 carpus with bayonet or simple spines, without blade-like spines. Pleopods elongated, with only distal setae.

Notes

Published as part of Tzeng, You-Wei & Hsueh, Pan-Wen, 2021, Additions of new species to the Paratanaoidea (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) of Taiwan, pp. 131-148 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4636014

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pseudotanaidae
Genus
Akanthinotanais
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tanaidacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Sieg
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Akanthinotanais Sieg, 1977 sec. Tzeng & Hsueh, 2021

References

  • Sieg, J. (1977) Taxonomische Monographie der familie Pseudotanaidae (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 53, 1 - 109. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 19770530102
  • Larsen, K., Nagaoka, R. & Froufe, E. (2012) Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from Macaronesia III. The shallow-water Tanaidomorpha from the Cape Verde archipelago. Zootaxa, 3498 (1), 24 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3498.1.2
  • McLelland, J. A. (2008) A Systematic and taxonomic review of the family Pseudotanaidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) based primarily on morphometric cladistic analyses. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. Available from: http: // www. marinespecies. org / aphia. php? p = sourcedetails & id = 141181 (accessed 16 February 2021)