A new species of heterochelous tanaidacean Tanaissus (Paratanaoidea: Tanaissuidae) from the north-west Iberian Peninsula
Author
Esquete, Patricia
Author
Rubal, Marcos
Author
Veiga, Puri
Author
Troncoso, Jesus
text
Zootaxa
2015
3995
1
189
202
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.17
6500dda9-4931-4a25-bc28-9fa0018b2444
1175-5326
239215
37772558-6DAC-451B-9E60-2D60818791BD
Key to species of
Tanais
sus
(females)
1. Cheliped propodus with bifid dorsodistal crest near dactylus insertion............................................ 2
– Cheliped propodus without bifid crest..................................................................... 3
2. Cheliped fixed finger with three teeth. Chela not separated from propodus insertion............
T. lilljeborgi
[NE Atlantic]
– Cheliped fixed finger with single distal tooth. Chela ventrally well separated from propodus insertion on carpus by an invagi- nation on propodus forming a neck........................................................................ 5
3. Mandible molar acuminate, with minute terminal spines. Sternal carpal spine on pereopods 2–3 weakly or strongly curved....................................................................................................... 4
– Mandible molar acuminate with pointed tip. Sternal carpal spine on pereopods 2–3 straight........
T. giraffa
[SE
Australia
]
4. Chela fixed finger with bifid semicircular tooth. Uropod exopod with one article or very weakly two-articled..........................................................................................
T. danica
[boreal NE Atlantic]
– Chela fixed finger with two unequal teeth, dactylus interlocking. Uropod exopod two-articled....................................................................................................
T. psammophilus
[NW Atlantic]
5. Two dorsal, parallel crenulate ridges in addition to marginal ridges on cephalothorax; cheliped propodus with inner comb of dendritic spines...........................................................
T. microthymus
[E Mediterranean]
– Crenulate ridges on cephalothorax margins only; cheliped propodus with inner comb of simple spines......................................................................................
T. bamberi
sp. nov.
[Iberian NE Atlantic]