Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976 *
Author
Bird, Graham J.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1599
61
85
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178698
4752b142-888a-44bf-b0a3-210a24ff581a
1175-5326
178698
Tumidochelia
cf.
dentifera
(
G.O. Sars, 1896
)
(restricted synonymy and bibliography)
Leptognathia dentifera
G.O. Sars, 1896
: 30
, plate XIV fig.2.
Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970
: 353
[doubtful synonymy].
Tumidochelia dentifera
(
G.O. Sars, 1896
)
:
Larsen & Shimomura, 2007
: 8
, fig. 3.
Remarks.
The genus
Tumidochelia
is an
Akanthophoreus
-like taxon, largely characterized by a relatively short antennule article 1 and inner spiniform process on the uropod basal article. The original diagnosis (and repeated by
Larsen & Shimomura
2007
in the enlargement of the genus) is in error in stating that the cheliped carpal shield is on the inner face – it is on the outer face.
Tumidochelia dentifera
, principally a shelf and shallow-bathyal species from west European waters (see
Sieg 1983
), has been doubtfully recorded from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench (
Kudinova-Pasternak 1970
), at 4895–6225 metres while another species,
T. knighti
Larsen & Shimomura, 2007
, has been recently described from bathyal depths (635–654 metres) off Okinawa.