Leptognathia zenkevitchi Kudinova-Pasternak 1970

• Main Author: Bird, Graham J
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Leptognathiidae; Leptognathia; Leptognathia zenkevitchi; Kamchatka; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4668948; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F187A3FFF50375FF57FCB81074FAAA

Leptognathia zenkevitchi Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970 Leptognathia zenkevitchi Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970: 360 –361, 379, fig.13. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1973: 157. Larsen & Shimomura, 2007: 15. Remarks. A small, stout species lacking pleopods, with a single ventral seta on the cheliped propodus and short uropods with one-articled exopod. It has been recently removed from the genus Leptognathia sensu stricto (and Family Leptognathiidae) by Larsen & Shimomura (2007), on the grounds that the mandibular molar is broad. Its true place in the new classification remains undecided until new, and unequivocal, specimens are collected. It has been recorded from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench, 4945 metres (Kudinova-Pasternak 1970), and south of Unimak Island (Aleutian Islands) at 3080 metres (Kudinova-Pasternak 1973) but not recorded in the present material. Published as part of Bird, Graham J, 2007, Family incertae cedis *, pp. 121-149 in Zootaxa 1599 on page 146, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178710