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Genus
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b
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species.
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577B26B61EFD94FC8A" box="[316,603,813,838]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais typicus</emphasis>
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b
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This genus was erected by
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to accommodate his new species
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(by monotypy) from the Vema Expedition in the Caribbean Sea.
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A1057797AB699FBEAFC0F" box="[864,1061,938,963]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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is also a cosmopolitan genus to be found in any deep-water sampling around the world (
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;
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; Larsen 2002). The most recent key to the genus is given by
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but the addition of new taxa requires a modification of that key.
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Although there are no problems in separating
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and
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A105779D9B178FB47FBA8" box="[963,1160,1099,1124]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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there seem to be some difficulties in separating the genera
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A1057785CB140FCC4FB40" box="[582,779,1139,1164]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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from
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,
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although the characters given by
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appear to be fairly easy at first glance. The diagnostic characters for
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577E42B1A8FAD2FB78" box="[1112,1309,1179,1204]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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separating it from
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,
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are (as stated by Lang): “labium as in
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;
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cheliped without pseudocoxa; uropod without exopod process”. However, as quite often within Tanaidacean systematics, things are not quite as simple as expected. The labium of
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does indeed have a setulate medial seta or projection, but is hardly as in
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as it is lacking the prominent process on the outer lateral corners found in the labium of
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577B27B050FE16FAB0" box="[317,473,1379,1404]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Agathotanais</emphasis>
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(
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; Larsen 2002, 2005). Regarding the uropod exopodal process, this is much more obvious and often acute in
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but still, such a structure is visible in certain species of
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577B0DB080FE13FA00" box="[279,476,1459,1484]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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(
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;
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) albeit very reduced. As for the cheliped pseudocoxa the situation is not quite clear cut either. Larsen (2002) described
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577E84B0E8FAC1FA38" box="[1182,1294,1499,1524]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">P. medius</emphasis>
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as having a pseudocoxa, although later he (2005) withdrew that character, stating that this was the result of a bad dissection. It is now clear that the
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577BF1B318FD7FF988" box="[491,688,1579,1604]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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cheliped is attached to the carapace via a large sclerite (which often comes off with the cheliped during dissection). Also
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noted and illustrated the differences in the degree of fusion/no fusion of sclerite/pseudocoxa within the
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577E26B348FB25F958" box="[1084,1258,1659,1684]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paranarthrura</emphasis>
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and suggested potential taxonomic value. This sclerite has also been suggested homologous with the pseudocoxa by
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and this is supported by the observations conducted in this study. Although the cheliped sclerite of
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can be morphologically separated from the pseudocoxa of
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,
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some species of
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does not posses a pseudocoxa but rather a sclerite. Thus we are left without any clear-cut differentiating characters between
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A105778B2B270FCA2F890" box="[680,877,1859,1884]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A105779B7B270FB94F890" box="[941,1115,1859,1884]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paranarthrura</emphasis>
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and these genera must be seen as gradual evolutionary line, in the direction from
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577933B258FC18F848" box="[809,983,1899,1924]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paranarthrura</emphasis>
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via
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A10577E16B258FB1EF848" box="[1036,1233,1899,1924]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to
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<taxonomicName id="4C46ADF38E1A10577EE2B258FA57F848" box="[1272,1432,1899,1924]" class="Malacostraca" family="Agathotanaidae" genus="Agathotanais" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tanaidacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Agathotanais</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
It is here suggested that the best way to separate
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A105778FFB2A0FC5CF860" box="[741,915,1939,1964]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paranarthrura</emphasis>
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from
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<taxonomicName id="4C46ADF38E1A105779C5B2A0FB68F860" box="[991,1191,1939,1964]" class="Malacostraca" family="Agathotanaidae" genus="Paragathotanais" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tanaidacea" pageId="7" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paragathotanais</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
is by the larger and more lateral attachment of the uropods in
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1A1057788EB288FC8DF818" box="[660,834,1979,2004]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="48">Paranarthrura</emphasis>
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. For identification it is recommended to view the animal habitus from the dorsal view; if the uropods protrude latero-distally from the pleotelson, the species can be referred to
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1510587B76B5F3FDD5FF15" box="[364,538,192,217]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="49">Paranarthrura</emphasis>
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, it they are not visible then to
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<taxonomicName id="4C46ADF38E1510587965B5F3FB87FF15" box="[895,1096,192,217]" class="Malacostraca" family="Agathotanaidae" genus="Paragathotanais" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tanaidacea" pageId="8" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paragathotanais</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF9D6708E1510587ADCB5DBFF33FE05" blockId="8.[151,1436,152,458]" pageId="8" pageNumber="49">
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described
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1510587891B5DBFC56FECD" box="[651,921,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="49">Paranarthrura zevinae</emphasis>
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from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench (before the genus
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1510587B14B423FE1CFEE5" box="[270,467,272,297]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="49">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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was established), although her species does not display any uropod exopodal process. She did not illustrate the labium but did (
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) illustrate a structure which could be either a sclereite or a psedodocoxa. Given the considerations raised above,
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1510587EA2B453FF05FE6D" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="49">Paranarthrura zevinae</emphasis>
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should be placed in
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1510587BA7B4BBFD4DFE6D" box="[445,642,392,417]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="49">Paragathotanais</emphasis>
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rather than in
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<emphasis id="B9320A628E1510587935B4BBFC12FE6D" box="[815,989,392,417]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="49">Paranarthrura</emphasis>
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owing to the small ventrally-attached uropods.
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