Pseudotanais G. O. Sars 1882

• Main Author: Bird, Graham J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Pseudotanaidae; Pseudotanais; Austral; Rapa; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5612826; https://zenodo.org/record/5612826

Pseudotanais sp. FP#1 (Fig. 22) Material examined . One non-ov. ♀ (?), 1.0 mm, one ov. ♀, 1.5 mm, P. 102327, Stn 28-61. Distribution . Anarua Bay, Rapa Iti, Austral Islands, coral rubble, 16.5– 17 m. Remarks . Species-identification of these two small specimens (one in poor condition and partly covered with detritus) was not possible, although they have non-forcipate chelae (Fig. 22A), setose pereopod-1 basis (Fig. 22B), and pereopods 2–3 propodal setation of a “ non-affinis ” group, i.e. with the inferodistal (and anaxial) spine Fig. 22C) clearly shorter than the claw (dactylus and unguis), rather than being as long as or nearly as long (Bird & Holdich 1989). The cephalothorax is about as long as pereonites 1–3 combined and the length ratio of pereonites 1–3 is 6:10:15. The pereopods are slender, as are the uropods (Fig. 22D). Additional material of this species is needed to clarify its taxonomy. : Published as part of Bird, Graham J., 2019, Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Southern French Polynesia Expedition, 2014. I. Tanaidomorpha, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4548 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4548.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2584426 : {"references": ["Bird, G. J. & Holdich, D. M. (1989) Tanaidacea (Crustacea) of the north-east Atlantic: the subfamily Pseudotanainae (Pseudotanaidae) and the family Nototanaidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London, 97, 233 - 298. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1989. tb 00548. x"]}