Agathotanaididae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin
Author
Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen
text
Zootaxa
2003
330
1
15
journal article
51263
10.5281/zenodo.156207
c90a777b-d156-49b0-966b-9bb21c8a4dee
11755326
156207
Genus
Paragathotanais
Bird & Holdich, 1988
Diagnosis
: (modified after
Lang 1971
;
Bird & Holdich 1989
) Cuticle heavily calcified and pitted. Antennule with four articles. Antenna with four to six articles. Pleon narrower or as wide as pereon. Mandibles with acuminate or reduced pars molaris. Left mandible with spiniform lacina mobliis. Maxillule with eight to eleven terminal spines. Labium with or without small lateral spines. Maxilliped basis and endites together, oval or heartshaped. Epignath without terminal spine. Pereopods 1–3 usually with one strong ventral seta on propodus. Pereopods 4 to 6 usually with two to four strong terminal setae on propodus. Uropod endopod and basal article not fused.
Type
species:
Paragathotanais typicus
Lang, 1971
, by original designation.