Tirons of the world: a review of ‘ tironid’ amphipods, description of new genera and species, and establishment of a new subfamily Tironinae Stebbing, 1906 stat. nov. (Crustacea, Synopiidae)
Author
Just, Jean
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-05-23
5139
1
1
89
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5139.1.1
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Tironinae
Stebbing, 1906
stat. nov.
Classification.
The families
Synopiidae
Dana, 1853
and
Tironidae
Stebbing, 1906
were synonymized under the former name by J.L.
Barnard (1964)
, a move that has not been disputed, and which then included the genera
Tiron
Lilljeborg, 1865
with 7 species and
Pseudotiron
Chevreux, 1895
with 2 species. These 2 genera and 9 species, together with 4 new genera and an additional 32 species described since 1964 (including 18 here), differ distinctly from the remaining synopiids. A new subfamily for this group of genera is diagnosed as
Tironinae
Stebbing1906
,
stat. nov.
Further analysis of the
Synopiidae
is needed to ascertain its full subfamilial structure, which is beyond the scope of this study.