Paragathotanais Bird & Holdich 1988

• Main Author: Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Agathotanaidae; Paragathotanais; Seta; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5691150; https://zenodo.org/record/5691150

Genus Paragathotanais Bird & Holdich, 1988 Diagnosis : (modified after Lang 1971; Bird & Holdich 1989) Cuticle heavily calcified and pitted. Antennule with four articles. Antenna with four to six articles. Pleon narrower or as wide as pereon. Mandibles with acuminate or reduced pars molaris. Left mandible with spiniform lacina mobliis. Maxillule with eight to eleven terminal spines. Labium with or without small lateral spines. Maxilliped basis and endites together, oval or heart­shaped. Epignath without terminal spine. Pereopods 1–3 usually with one strong ventral seta on propodus. Pereopods 4 to 6 usually with two to four strong terminal setae on propodus. Uropod endopod and basal article not fused. Type species: Paragathotanais typicus Lang, 1971, by original designation. : Published as part of Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen, 2003, Agathotanaididae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin, pp. 1-15 in Zootaxa 330 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156207 : {"references": ["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.", "Lang, K. (1971) Die Gattungen Agathotanais Hansen und Paragathotanais n. gen. (Tanaidacea). Crustaceana, 21, 57 - 71.", "Bird G. J. & Holdich, D. M. (1989) Deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea) of the North-east Atlantic: the genus Paranarthrura Hansen. Journal of Natural History, 23, 137 - 167."]}