Venusticrus Gardiner 1975, comb. nov. ...

• 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; Venusticrus; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Pacific; Gardiner; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6097857; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6097857

Genus Venusticrus Gardiner, 1975 Generic remarks. Neotanais rotermundiae Weigmann & Guerrero-Kommritz, 2009 shares several characters with V. glandurus such as the uropod attached ventrally to the pleotelson (possibly an apomorphic character for Venusticrus) and the distal bilobate and finely serrated terminal shield at insertion of the unguis of pereopods 4–6 (so far found only in species of Venusticrus), therefore, the former is here transferred to Venusticrus (as V. rotermundiae comb. nov.). In his revision of Neotanais, Larsen (1999) also transferred N. insolitus Gardiner, 1975 to Venusticrus, warranted by the uropod attachment, the setation on the cheliped carpus, the slim cheliped basis and ventral pereopod attachments. Nevertheless, V. insolitus, V. rotermundiae and the new species of Venusticrus described here, lack some of the diagnostic characters listed by Gardiner (1975). Thus, a revised generic diagnosis is presented in the present study. Gender. Masculine Type species. Venusticrus glandurus ... : 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 543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233994 ...