Antatelson J. L. Barnard 1972
Creators
Description
Amended key to Antatelson species:
1. Body dorsally smooth............................................................................................................................2
– Body dorsally not smooth......................................................................................................................4
2. Gnathopod 2 carpus elongate, longer than broad............................. A. cuneatum Krapp-Schickel, 2006
– Gnathopod 2 carpus length subequal to width.......................................................................................3
3. Uropod 1 longer ramus much shorter than peduncle; gnathopods with parallel margins........................................................................................................... A. antennatum Bellan-Santini & Ledoyer, 1973
– Uropod 1 longer ramus subequal to peduncle; gnathopods distally widened..........................................................................................................................................[Thaumatelson herdmani Walker, 1906]
4. Head with rostrum, body without tubercles or processes, but keeled......................................................................................................................................... A. rostratum Bellan-Santini & Ledoyer, 1973
– Head without rostrum, body with tubercles or processes......................................................................5
5. Peraeon and pleon segments with dorsal tubercles..................................................... A. claudei sp. nov.
– Only pleon with tubercles, peraeon smooth..........................................................................................6
6. Pleon segments 1-3 with tubercles....................................................... A. tuberculatum Andres, 1989
– Pleon segment 1, 2 smooth, third segment with acute nasiform process, (one upright tubercle), without accompanying small processes............................................... A. walkeri (Chilton, 1912) probably syn. to A. cultricauda (K.H. Barnard, 1932) with accompanying small process.
Acknowledgements
I am thankful for the possibility to collaborate with the Laboratory of Carcinology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, where I always met both interesting and helpful colleagues.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Stenothoidae
- Genus
- Antatelson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- J. L. Barnard
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Antatelson Barnard, 1972 sec. Krapp-Schickel, 2011
References
- Krapp-Schickel T. 2006. Thaumatelsonine Stenothoids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) Part 2. Zootaxa 1165: 1 - 31, 10 figs.
- Walker A. O. 1906. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Amphipoda from the ' Discovery' Antarctic Expedition, 1902 - 1904. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Ser. 7 (18): 13 - 18.
- Andres H. G. 1989. Antatelson tuberculatum sp. n., ein neuer Vertreter der Thaumatelsoninae aus der Antarktis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut 86: 179 - 184.
- Chilton C. 1912. The Amphipoda of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. The Transaction of the Royal Society of Edinburgh XLVIII; II 23: 455 - 520, 2 pls.
- Barnard K. H. 1932. Amphipoda. Discovery Reports 5: 1 - 326.