New data on the Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Canary Islands, with a description of a new species of Apseudopsis
Author
Esquete, Patricia
Author
Ramos, Eva
Author
Riera, Rodrigo
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Zootaxa
2016
4093
2
248
260
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.6
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1175-5326
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Tanais dulongii
(Audouin, 1826)
Material examined.
One female, length
2.5 mm
, station LC 4-C,
28º 2’ 49’’ N
,
16º 42’ 53’’W
,
11 m
depth, unvegetated sand, “Cak Foster” dredge,
September 2013
, coll. E. Ramos & R. Riera.
Remarks.
Tanais dulongii
was described from the coast of
Egypt
and has a broad distribution on Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts (Hamers
et al
. 2000; Bamber 2012) where it dwells littoral algae. In the Macaronesian region, early records of the species in the Azores were partially clarified by Bamber & Costa (2009), and later Bamber (2012) confirmed its presence in
Cabo Verde
and Madeira. This is the first record of
T. dulongii
for Tenerife, and the second for the Canary Islands after Sanz
et al
. (2003) found it in subtidal seabeds in SW Lanzarote.