Neotanais Beddard 1886 ...

• Main Authors: Araújo-Silva, Catarina L., Froufe, Elsa, Larsen, Kim
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Neotanaidae; Neotanais; Antarctic; Pacific; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6097854; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6097854

Genus Neotanais Beddard, 1886 Diagnosis. For females, see Weigmann & Guerrero-Kommritz (2009: 21) Gender. Masculine Type species. Neotanais americanus Beddard, 1886 Generic remarks. According to Larsen (2005) and Bamber (2007) the following combination of characters have been useful to distinguish the species (females): relative length/width (l/w) of cephalothorax, pereonites, pleotelson, cheliped propodus, antennae, and uropods; the shape of pleonal ventral keel; number of cheliped dorsal carpal setae; the l/w of the cheliped fixed finger and dactylus; proportions of article 1 and relative lengths of the distal articles of the antennule; relative length of the uropod exopod with the first article of the uropod endopod and the adult size. ... : Published as part of Araújo-Silva, Catarina L., Froufe, Elsa & Larsen, Kim, 2015, Two new species of family Neotanaidae (Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from the Antarctic and Mid-Pacific Oceans, pp. 535-552 in Zootaxa 4018 (4) on page 536, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233994 ...