Agathotanaidae ...

• Main Author: Bird, Graham J
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Agathotanaidae; Faroes; Iceland; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6205832; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6205832

Key to the identification of Agathotanaidae from the Iceland-Faroes-Shetlands sector of the North-east Atlantic. 1 Antennule three-articled; antenna one-articled; cuticle densely pitted.............................. Agathotanais ingolfi - Antennule four-articled; antenna six-articled; cuticle shiny or weakly pitted....................................... 2 2 Uropods largely concealed beneath pleotelson, exopod very small or absent........................ Paragathotanais...3 - Uropods visible from dorsal view, exopod a short or prominent fused process......................... Paranarthura...5 3 Cephalothorax longer than pereonites 1–2....................................... Paragathotanais vikingus sp. nov. - Cephalothorax shorter than pereonites 1–2.................................................................. 4 4 Pereonites 4–5 shorter than broad, pleotelson with pointed apex............................. Paragathotanais robustus - Pereonites 4–5 as long as or longer than broad, pleotelson bulbous, with ... : 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 page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200143 ...