Published December 31, 2010 | Version v1
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Paragathotanais Lang 1971

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Description

Paragathotanais Lang, 1971

Lang (1971a): 65, 67.

Bird & Holdich (1989): 1605.

Larsen (2002): 61.

Guerrero-Kommritz (2003): 3–4. Larsen (2005): 104–108, 118, 120 Larsen (2007): 48–49.

Remarks. As with the previous genus, Paragathotanais is a eurybathic and cosmopolitan taxon. Confusion about the number of antennal articles has arisen following the diagnosis of Paragathotanais given in Bird & Holdich (1988) and the comments offered by Larsen (2007). Bird & Holdich defined the antenna of the relevant taxa as being six-articled, rather than five-articled as used by Larsen. This apparent conflict arises because the most basal article (article-1) is small and effectively fused to the cephalothorax. In order to preserve the homogeny of the antennal articles in descriptions and comparisons the Bird & Holdich terminology is used here, even though the detached/separated antenna has the appearance of being five-articled.

Notes

Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2010, Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) of the North-east Atlantic: the Agathotanaidae of the AFEN, BIOFAR and BIOICE projects, with a description of a new species of Paragathotanais Lang, pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2730 on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200143

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Agathotanaidae
Genus
Paragathotanais
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tanaidacea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lang
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Paragathotanais Lang, 1971 sec. Bird, 2010

References

  • Lang, K. (1971 a) Die Gattungen Agathotanais Hansen und Paragathotanais n. gen. (Tanaidacea). Crustaceana, 21, 57 - 71.
  • Larsen, K. (2002) Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Gulf of Mexico. X. The question of being male. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 14, 53 - 66.
  • Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2003) Agathotanaididae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin. Zootaxa, 330, 1 - 15.
  • Larsen, K. (2005) Deep-sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Crustaceana Monographs 5. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 381 pp.
  • Larsen, K. (2007) Family Agathotanaidae. In Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan III. The deep trenches; the Kurile- Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench. Zootaxa, 1599, 41 - 60.
  • Bird, G. J. & Holdich, D. M. (1988) Deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea) of the North-east Atlantic: the tribe Agathotanaini. Journal of Natural History, 22, 1591 - 1621.