Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Southern French Polynesia Expedition, 2014. I. Tanaidomorpha
Author
Bird, Graham J.
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Zootaxa
2019
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Genus
Zeuxoides
Sieg, 1980
Remarks
. A probable sister genus to
Zeuxo
within the tanaidid Tribe
Anatanaini
,
Zeuxoides
is less species-rich according to current knowledge, with only eleven described species (WoRMS, accessed
17/8/2018
). It is distinguished from
Zeuxo
principally by the uropod’s short terminal segment, generally well-produced apophysis on the pereopod-1 coxa (but see
Z. seurati
above), and more numerous antennular aesthetascs (
Sieg 1980: 163
). The first character is shared, however, with the genus
Pancoloides
Sieg, 1980
.
Unlike
Zeuxo
that has been recorded in both Hemispheres,
Zeuxoides
is known only from the Southern Hemisphere (
Table 9
;
Sieg 1986b
: 186, fig.6) and generally at mid–high latitudes, although the species described below is the most northerly of the genus, at the latitude
c
.
27°30’S
.