Zeuxo Templeton 1840

• Main Author: Edgar, Graham J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Tanaididae; Zeuxo; Burton; Heard Island; Seta
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5127394; https://zenodo.org/record/5127394

Key to Australian species of Zeuxo (including subantarctic species) 1. Four or five uropod articles in mature individuals.....................................................................................2 - Six or seven uropod articles in mature individuals..................................................................................... 4 2. Four uropod articles in mature individuals..................................................................................................3 - Five uropod articles in mature individuals....................................................... Zeuxo nannioggae Bamber 3. Antennule basal article less than 3.5 times as long as wide, fourth article of antenna less than twice as long as wide...................................................................................................................... Zeuxo mooneyi n. sp. - Antennule basal article more than 3.5 times as long as wide, fourth article of antenna more than 2.5 times as long as wide.............................................................................................................................................. .............. Zeuxo phytalensis Sieg (subantarctic species known from Heard Island, Edgar & Burton 2000) 4. Strongly digitate anterior bulge on coxa of pereopod 1, sexes similar, inhabits gastropod shells................ ............................................................................................................................................ Zeuxo shepherdi - Anterior bulge on coxa of pereopod 1 either slightly indented or rounded, sexually dimorphic................5 5. Lacinia mobilis of left mandible well developed and tooth-like, lacinia mobilis of right mandible peg-like.................................................................................................................................................................... 6 - Lacinia mobilis of left mandible peg-like, lacinia mobilis of right mandible reduced to thorn or absent.. 7 6. Pleopod with five setae on outer margin of basal article; three projecting setae on coxa of pereopod 1; one aesthetasc on female antennule................................................................................. Zeuxo angua Bamber - Pleopod with six setae on outer margin of basal article; four projecting setae on coxa of pereopod 1; two or three aesthetascs on female antennule ........................................................ Zeuxo normani (Richardson) 7. Pleopod with single seta on inner margin of endopod; lacinia mobilis of right mandible absent...............8 - Pleopod with three to six setae on inner margin of endopod; lacinia mobilis of right mandible thorn-like.....................................................................................................................................................................9 8. Dorsal surface with dark stripes near posterior margin of pereonites .............................. Zeuxo russi n. sp. - Dorsal surface with dark scattered patches of pigment.................................................... Zeuxo belli n. sp. 9. Pleopod basal article with six setae on outer margin, endopod with three setae on inner margin................ .................................................................................................................................... Zeuxo kirkmani n. sp. - Pleopod basal article with nine setae on outer margin, endopod with five or six setae on inner margin...... ................................................................................................................................ Zeuxo odohertyae n. sp. : Published as part of Edgar, Graham J., 2008, Shallow water Tanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) of Australia, pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 1836 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1836.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127398 : {"references": ["Edgar, G. J. & Burton, H. R. (2000) The biogeography of shallow-water macrofauna at Heard Island. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 133, 23 - 26."]}