Apseudopsis Norman, 1899

Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. & Bamber, R. N., 2012, The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69, pp. 1-235 : 9

Genus Apseudopsis Norman, 1899

Apseudopsis tuski (Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007) comb. nov.

Apseudes tuski Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b , 116– 120, figs 4–6.

Remarks. This species lacks anterolateral spiniform apophyses on the pereonites, a comb of spinules on the pereopod 5 propodus, and a dorsodistal spine on the merus of pereopod 1, so is clearly a member of Apseudopsis Norman 1899 sensu Guţu (2006) , indeed close in overall morphology to A. latreilli (Milne-Edwards, 1828) . Apseudopsis tuski also has unusual spination on the maxilliped palp, as is the case for two of the species of Apseudes discussed above, but in this case there are three spines on the outer margin of the second article, the most distal of which is large and robust.

This species was found throughout the Bass Strait, between 37º50' and 40º07'S and 143º14' and 148º30'E, and from 18 to 84 m depth on sandy to coarse shell substrata.