New species of Tridentella Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Cymothoida: Tridentellidae), tropical marine isopod crustaceans from the Banda Sea, Indonesia
Author
Bruce, Niel L
text
Zootaxa
2008
1734
43
58
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.181413
dd14541d-89df-4b94-b75b-74d99f0709c2
1175-5326
181413
Tridentella
Richardson, 1905
Restricted synonymy:
Brandt & Poore, 2001
: 200.
Remarks:
Many species of
Tridentella
are highly ornamented, some with cephalic processes, or with heavily spinose dorsal surfaces, and the pleotelson often has longitudinal ridges and serrate lateral margins. A few species totally lack any form of ornamentation, these being
T. japonica
Thielemann, 1910
,
T. recava
Bowman, 1986
,
T. laevicephalax
Menzies, 1962
(
Carvacho 1977
)
and now
Tridentella memikat
sp. nov.
and
Tridentella tanimbar
sp. nov.
;
Tridentella brandtae
sp. nov.
, is so weakly nodulose as to appear without ornamentation.
Brandt and Poore (2001)
list the species known to date.