The ANDEEP Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) revisited II: the family Anarthruridae and family incertae sedis, with descriptions of three new species and the erection of a new genus
Author
Larsen, Kim
text
Zootaxa
2013
3694
4
367
380
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3694.4.5
7e137994-f352-4a45-b8a5-3956e794a750
1175-5326
219421
0547EBDB-8A08-4F0F-8902-7B928A0E5EBD
Genus
Selvagentanais
nom. nov.
Diagnosis.
Female. Cuticle heavily calcified. Pereon with six pereonites. Pleon with five free pleonites. Antennule with four articles, article 3 as long as article 2, article 4 longer than article 2. Antenna with six articles. Molar process well-developed and with terminal spines. Maxillipedal basis partially fused, endites not fused, narrower than basis, and without specialized setae; palp article 2 with robust serrated inner seta. Cheliped attachment via indistinct sclerite; chela slender. Marsupium with four pairs of oostegites. All pereopods with meral and carpal bayonet setae. Pereopods 4–6 coxae while sometimes incompletely fused with somites, still visible, dactylus and unguis not fused. Pereopod 6 propodus with three dorsal and one ventral bayonet setae. Pleopods absent. Uropod basal article long (almost as long as, or longer, than endopod); endopod with two articles, article 1 as long as article 2; exopod biarticulated and longer than endopod article 1.
Male
. Unknown.
Type
species:
Selvagentanais setoserrata
(Larsen, 2012)
.
Etymology.
Named after the
type
locality, the Portuguese Selvagen Islands.