Tanaella eltaninae Guerrero-Kommritz & Blażewicz-Paszkowycz, 2004, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen, Blażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Tanaellidae; Tanaella; Tanaella eltaninae; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Menzies; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5689260; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5689260

Tanaella eltaninae sp. nov. (Figs 1­3) Material examined: holotype, USNM 1020439, female, 2.17 mm, Eltanin cruise 8, sta. 573, 55°11`S 024°10`W – 55°13`S 024°05`W, Menzies Trawl, depth 3978–4008 m; 16 April 1963. Paratype: USNM 1020440, female, 3.02 mm, Eltanin, cruise 21, sta. 267, 56°32`S 119°20`W – 56°30`S 119°27`W, Menzies Trawl, depth 4740–4742 m; 23 December 1965, (dissected). Diagnosis: cheliped massive, without proximal tubercle in inner margin of dactylus. Maxilliped endites with tubercle. Labium narrow. The basis of pereopods 1–3 shorter than remainder of the articles combined. Pereopods 4–6 with ventral margin of propodus not serrated. Uropod as long as pleotelson, composed of uni­articled endopod. Description: non­ovigerous female. Body (Figs. 1 a, b) elongate, about six times longer than broad, slightly flattened dorsoventrally. Cephalothorax (Fig. 1 a, c) triangular, shorter than pleon, posterior end twice as wide as anterior end. Pereon with first pereonite as long as sixth, second slightly ... : Published as part of Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen & Blażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, 2004, New species of Ta n a e l l a Norman and Stebbing, 1886 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaellidae) from the deep­sea off the Antarctic and the Angola Basin, with a key to the genus, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 459 on pages 3-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157689 ...