Tanaidacea (Crustacea) of the Northeast Atlantic: nonfiliform species of Anarthruridae Lang from the Atlantic Margin
Author
Bird, Graham
text
Zootaxa
2004
471
1
44
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.157876
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Anisopechys
gen. nov.
Anarthrura
:
Holdich & Bird, 1989
: tables III, IV and appendices as taxon ‘26’.
Anarthrura
:
Bird, 2001
: 25
–26
Type
species
.
Anisopechys crinitus
sp. nov.
by monotypy.
Diagnosis
. Anarthrurid with normal pleon. Labrum strongly laterally compressed, ovoid. Mandible with weak, deflexed acuminate molar process. Maxillule endite with seven (?) unequal terminal setae. Maxilliped endite conical, with finely setose margin, without distal setae; palp article3 with three inner setae. Cheliped propodus with lateral fold; fixed finger with one ventral seta. Carpus of pereopods 4–6 with three complex spiniform setae and one thin seta. Pleopods present. Uropod exopod with three thick distal setae.
Etymology
. From Greek
anisos
‘unequal’ and
pechys
‘forearm’, alluding to the shape of the cheliped carpus.
Remarks
. This genus differs from
Synanarthrura
gen. nov.
(see below) principally in its habitus, i.e. shape and proportions of cephalothorax, pereon, pleon and pleotelson. However, it probably has close phylogenetic affinities to that genus and to
Siphonolabrum
because of its narrow labrum, conical maxilliped endites and cheliped fold. The presence of a mandibular molar process (albeit weak) is shared with
Anarthruropsis galathea
Lang, 1968
and
Synanarthrura
gen.nov.