The synonymy of the genus Permixtimella Guţu, 2016 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) with Ektraleptochelia Bamber & Marshall, 2015 and remarks on other leptocheliid taxa
Author
Gu, Modest
Author
Bird, Graham J.
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
33067
10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.10
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Larsmentia
Bamber & Marshall, 2015
This monotypic genus was established by Bamber & Marshall (
op.cit
.) for the female of
Leptochelia elongata
Larsen & Rayment, 2002
(male being unknown), and was considered to belong to the
Catenariinae
. However, independently
Guţu (2016: 101)
moved
Leptochelia elongata
to the new genus
Alloleptochelia
.
On the evidence of the (somewhat sparse) description and illustrations of
L. elongata
given by
Larsen & Rayment (2002)
, it differs from the other
Alloleptochelia
species at least in the setation of cheliped merus (which has only two setae), carpus (without dorsal setules) and fixed finger (with only four setae), the lack of distodorsal spine of antenna third article, etc.
Until new material (including the male) of
L. elongata
is obtained and examined, this species should retain its revised generic nomen as
Larsmentia elongata
(
Larsen & Rayment, 2002
)
.