Tanais

Esquete, Patricia, Rubal, Marcos, Veiga, Puri & Troncoso, Jesus, 2015, A new species of heterochelous tanaidacean Tanaissus (Paratanaoidea: Tanaissuidae) from the north-west Iberian Peninsula, Zootaxa 3995 (1), pp. 189-202 : 199

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.17

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:37772558-6DAC-451B-9E60-2D60818791BD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6108490

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B08797-FFEA-FF94-FF75-FD1EFA65FB63

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Plazi

scientific name

Tanais
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Key to species of Tanais View in CoL sus (females)

1. Cheliped propodus with bifid dorsodistal crest near dactylus insertion............................................ 2

– Cheliped propodus without bifid crest..................................................................... 3

2. Cheliped fixed finger with three teeth. Chela not separated from propodus insertion............ T. lilljeborgi View in CoL [NE Atlantic]

– Cheliped fixed finger with single distal tooth. Chela ventrally well separated from propodus insertion on carpus by an invagi- nation on propodus forming a neck........................................................................ 5

3. Mandible molar acuminate, with minute terminal spines. Sternal carpal spine on pereopods 2–3 weakly or strongly curved....................................................................................................... 4

– Mandible molar acuminate with pointed tip. Sternal carpal spine on pereopods 2–3 straight........ T. giraffa View in CoL [SE Australia]

4. Chela fixed finger with bifid semicircular tooth. Uropod exopod with one article or very weakly two-articled.......................................................................................... T. danica View in CoL [boreal NE Atlantic]

– Chela fixed finger with two unequal teeth, dactylus interlocking. Uropod exopod two-articled.................................................................................................... T. psammophilus View in CoL [NW Atlantic]

5. Two dorsal, parallel crenulate ridges in addition to marginal ridges on cephalothorax; cheliped propodus with inner comb of dendritic spines........................................................... T. microthymus View in CoL [E Mediterranean]

– Crenulate ridges on cephalothorax margins only; cheliped propodus with inner comb of simple spines...................................................................................... T. bamberi View in CoL sp. nov. [Iberian NE Atlantic]

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