Apseudes grossimanus Norman & Stebbing 1886

• Main Author: Bochert, Ralf
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Apseudidae; Apseudes; Apseudes grossimanus; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3513404; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3513404

Apseudes grossimanus Norman & Stebbing, 1886 Apseudes grossimanus Norman & Stebbing, 1886: 93 –95, pl. 19. Lang, 1955: 74, figs. 12–15; 1968: 28–33, figs. 1–3. Blazewicz-Paszkowycz et al., 2011: 9 –10, fig. 5. Material examined: 1 male, 11.0 mm (St. 37: grab sampling; 15 ° 00.502Ś 12 °04.714´E) Remarks. The species is well characterized by its tridentate rostrum and large size. A. grossimanus was found by Lang (1968) off Angola (12 ° S) and Namibia (20 ° S) at 537–975 m water depth and further north at the shelf off Nigeria (50–100 m) (Lang, 1955). It is otherwise widespread in the north-east Atlantic and lives at similar (500–960 m) depth ranges (Blazewicz-Paszkowycz et al., 2011). The last-mentioned authors doubt that the records of A. grossimanus from North Atlantic, South Atlantic and the Mediterranean belong to the same species because it lacks a planktonic larval stage. Against this background, morphological features of the present specimen were carefully checked, but no differences to former descriptions were found. Distribution. West Africa: from 6 ° N– 20 ° S; 50–975 m water depth; North-east Atlantic. Published as part of Bochert, Ralf, 2012, Apseudomorph Tanaidacea from the continental shelf of Angola and Namibia with descriptions of three new species, pp. 31-50 in Zootaxa 3583 on page 33, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.209551