Neotanais Beddard 1886
Description
Genus Neotanais Beddard, 1886
Diagnosis. For females, see Weigmann & Guerrero-Kommritz (2009: 21)
Gender. Masculine
Type species. Neotanais americanus Beddard, 1886
Generic remarks. According to Larsen (2005) and Bamber (2007) the following combination of characters have been useful to distinguish the species (females): relative length/width (l/w) of cephalothorax, pereonites, pleotelson, cheliped propodus, antennae, and uropods; the shape of pleonal ventral keel; number of cheliped dorsal carpal setae; the l/w of the cheliped fixed finger and dactylus; proportions of article 1 and relative lengths of the distal articles of the antennule; relative length of the uropod exopod with the first article of the uropod endopod and the adult size.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Neotanaidae
- Genus
- Neotanais
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tanaidacea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Beddard
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neotanais Beddard, 1886 sec. Araújo-Silva, Froufe & Larsen, 2015
References
- Beddard, F. E. (1886) Preliminary notice of the Isopoda collected during the voyage of HMS Challenger. Part III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 26, 97 - 122.
- Weigmann, S. & Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2009) New species of Neotanais Beddard, 1886 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from the deep sea of the tropical and southern East Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 1992, 20 - 36.
- Larsen, K. (2005) Deep-sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Crustaceana Monographs 5. Brill, Leiden, 387 pp.
- Bamber, R. N. (2007) Suborders Apseudomorpha Sieg, 1980 and Neotanaidomorpha Sieg, 1980. In: Larsen, K. & Shimomura, M. (Eds.), Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan III. The Deep Trenches: The Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench. Zootaxa, 1599, 13 - 40.