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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.

Notes

Published as part of Araújo-Silva, Catarina L., Froufe, Elsa & Larsen, Kim, 2015, Two new species of family Neotanaidae (Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from the Antarctic and Mid-Pacific Oceans, pp. 535-552 in Zootaxa 4018 (4) on page 536, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233994

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Additional details

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.