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: Small, 0.8-0.9 mm, slender body, parallel-sided. Carapace extending laterally to cover (dorsally) the cheliped attachments. Carapace not connected with the cheliped sclerites Pereonites wider than long. Antennule with four articles and minute terminal segment, shorter than carapace, article-2 with dorsal symmetric projection overlapping basal part of article-3, terminal segment minute and covered by article-4 (only visible with scanning electron microscope image). Antenna with six articles. Labium without distolateral spines. Maxillule with seven distal spiniform setae (two bifid); maxillipedal palp article-2 with geniculate, finely-pectinate spiniform seta on distal inner margin (serrations visible at magnification 100
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). Cheliped attached via sclerite just anterior to the posterior margin of the cephalothorax, very close to the midventral line. Pereopods 1 to 6 attached ventrally. Pereopods 1-3 relatively slender; ischial seta shorter than merus. Pereopods 4-6 not stouter than pereopods 1-3; ischial setae shorter than merus. Pleopods absent in females. Uropods longer than pleotelson; basal article shorter than pleotelson, without distal apophyses; exopod uni-articulated, slightly longer than endopod article-1.
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unknown.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Type species.</paragraph>
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sp. n.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Etymology.</paragraph>
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Named after
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Island&quot;, where the material used in this study was collected, plus suffix - tanais.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Gender.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Masculine.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Hawaii Islands at depths ranging from 19 to 102 meters.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Remarks.</paragraph>
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The family
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has been considered as polyphyletic (
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of Museum Victoria" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" pagination="68 - 69" refId="B5" refString="Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M, Poore, GCB, 2008. Observations on phylogenetic relationships in Paratanaoidea (Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha). In: Advances in Crustacean Phylogenetics.: 68 - 69" title="Observations on phylogenetic relationships in Paratanaoidea (Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha)." volumeTitle="Advances in Crustacean Phylogenetics." year="2008">
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and Poore 2008
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;
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) and it is currently composed of 15 genera (WoRMS); unfortunately, most of the genera included within this diverse family need revision (e.g.
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Hansen, 1913 and
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Kudinova-Pasternak, 1973). The females of
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gen. n. can be identified by having a small body (less than 1 mm in length of reproductively active specimens), cheliped attached just anterior to the posterior margin of the cephalothorax, very close to the midventral line, not in contact with carapace lateral margin, and pereopods 1 to 6 attached ventrally.
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gen. n. appears to be most closely related to the genera,
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Bird and Holdich, 1984 from the Atlantic or Gulf of
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(
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Larsen, K" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" pagination="1 - 36" refId="B23" refString="Larsen, K, Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M, Cunha, MR, 2006. Tanaidacean (Crustacea: Peracarida) fauna from chemically reduced habitats- the lucky strike hydrothermal vent system, mid-Atlantic ridge. Zootaxa 1187: 1 - 36" title="Tanaidacean (Crustacea: Peracarida) fauna from chemically reduced habitats- the lucky strike hydrothermal vent system, mid-Atlantic ridge." volume="1187" year="2006">Larsen et al. 2006</bibRefCitation>
),
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Holdich &amp; Bird, 1986 from the North Atlantic (
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), and several species of
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G.O. Sars, 1882
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(see
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: 12) in having pereonites wider than long, pointed molars, females without pleopods (only in some species of
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and
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), and uropod structure. However, the
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can be distinguished from the Atlantic species of
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and
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by having 1) the maxilliped palp article-2 with geniculate, finely pectinate spiniform seta on sub-distal margin, 2) pereopods 1-3 with basis slender, and 3) pereopod ischial setae shorter than merus.
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The new genus also shows similarities with the monotypic genus
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, Bamber &amp;
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, 2013, recently described from 517-1356 m in waters off Japan. However,
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can be differentiated by 1) its pereonites are wider than long, 2) the antennal article-1 is longer than the distal three articles and minute terminal segment combined (shorter in
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), 3) the maxilliped endites have a medial small process (two oval tubercles in
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), 4) the maxilliped palp article-2 has a geniculate, finely pectinate spiniform seta on the sub-distal margin, and 5) pereopods 1-6 are slender. Although the presence of the geniculate, finely pectinate spiniform seta in the maxilliped palp article-2 separates
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from the other genera within the family
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, it is possible that this spiniform seta has been overlooked in the original description of
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, as well as in other colletteids due to their small overall size. Unfortunately, no information is available on the form of the cheliped attachment in
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.
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mentioned that this character, the cheliped-cephalothorax attachment position, is an important feature that has been overlooked or has not been recorded or illustrated by many authors, even today. So far within the family
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, only
<bibRefCitation author="Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of Museum Victoria" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" pagination="1 - 235" refId="B4" refString="Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M, Bamber, RN, 2012. The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69: 1 - 235" title="The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae)." volume="69" year="2012">
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and Bamber (2012)
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and this study have included detailed information and illustrations showing the real point of insertion of the cheliped and how far it is located from pereonite-1. Thus,
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can be separated from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Bascestus</emphasis>
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&amp; Bamber, 2012 by having 1) the cheliped attached just anterior to the posterior margin of the cephalothorax (more anterior in
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), 2) females without pleopods (pleopods present in
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), and 3) exopod uni-articulated (bi-articulated in
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).
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The ventral cheliped attachment without contact with the carapace lateral margin (Fig.
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) is an interesting
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rare character among tanaidomorphans, and it has so far only been recorded from another colletteid,
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Larsen &amp; Heard, 2002, but this highly modified genus differs in many other aspects from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Oahutanais</emphasis>
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.
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