Agathotanaididae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin
Author
Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen
text
Zootaxa
2003
330
1
15
journal article
51263
10.5281/zenodo.156207
c90a777b-d156-49b0-966b-9bb21c8a4dee
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156207
Genus
Agathotanais
Hansen, 1913
Agathotanais
sp. AB 1 (
Fig. 5
)
Material
:
MCZ
16766, one nonovigerous female,
3.25 mm
,
Atlantis
II cruise 42 Station 193 Walfis Bay,
2094 – 2191 m
, AD.
Description
: Nonovigerous female. Body: (
Fig. 5
a)
3.25 mm
in length, cylindrical and slender, six times as long as broad. Cephalothorax: (
Fig. 5
c) longer than pleon. Pereon: (
Fig.5
a) pereonite 1 as long as 6. Pereonite 2 longer than Pereonite 4 and shorter than Pereonite 3. Pereonite 3 longest pereonite. Pereonite 4 as long as 5 and longer than 6. Pleon: (
Fig. 5
a) cylindrical. Pleonites of subequal length narrowing towards the pleotelson. Pleotelson as long as two pleonites together and as wide as last pleonite. Apex pointed.
Antennule: composed of three articles. Article 1 longest, longer than the following articles together, naked. Article 2 as long as broad, naked. Article 3 with three terminal simple setae.
Antenna: absent.
Pleopods: absent.
FIGURE 5.
Agathotanais
sp. AB 1. MCZ 16766: a, body, dorsal view; b, uropod; c, cephalothorax, ventral view. Scale bar 1 mm
Uropods: (
Fig. 5
b) uniramous and uniarticled with two long simple terminal setae.
Remarks
: Only one specimen was available for this study, therefore it was not possible to present a more detailed description of this species. This species resembles
Agathotanais ahyongi
Larsen,
1999
in lacking the antenna and in the form of the antennula.
Agathotanais ahyongi
is more slender and the proportions of the cephalothorax differ. It is unlikely that
A. ahyongi
, known only from the tropical Pacific, would be found to also occur in the
Angola
Basin.