Paragathotanais vikingus Bird, 2010, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Bird, Graham J
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Agathotanaidae; Paragathotanais; Paragathotanais vikingus; Iceland; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6205820; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6205820

Paragathotanais vikingus sp. nov. Figs 3–6 Diagnosis. Paragathotanais with cephalothorax longer than pereonites 1–2 combined; pereonites all shorter than long, with lateral crenulations; antenna article-2 without spinules; pereopods 4–6 dactylus with two equal distal spines; uropod with slight exopod process. Material examined. Holotype: neuter (non-ovigerous female?), BIOICE Stn 2849, Iceland Basin, IMNH.3307. Allotype: male, BIOICE Stn 3069, Iceland Basin, IMNH.3311. Paratypes: One preparatory male, two neuters/non-ovigerous females BIOFAR Stn 264; one neuter, BIOICE Stn 2332, IMNH.3309; one neuter, BIOICE Stn 2849, IMNH.3307; one neuter (dissected on microslide, IMNH.3967), one male (IMNH.3304), BIOICE Stn 3069; two neuters, one male, BIOICE Stn 3280, IMNH.3308; one neuter, BIOICE Stn 3539, IMNH.3305; one neuter, BIOICE Stn 3543, IMNH.3310; two neuters, one early preparatory male, BIOFAR Stn 264. See Appendix A for details of these stations. Description. Neuter (non-ovigerous female). Cuticle shiny. Body ... : Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2010, Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) of the North-east Atlantic: the Agathotanaidae of the AFEN, BIOFAR and BIOICE projects, with a description of a new species of Paragathotanais Lang, pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2730 on pages 7-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200143 ...