Family TANAOPSIDAE Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2012
Introduction
Diagnosis taken from Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber (2012: 210):
"Generally leptognathioid (sensu lato) facies, pleon laterally convex and wider than pereon, antennule in female of four longer articles with or without minute distal article, in male with multisegmented flagellum; mandible pars incisiva distally rounded with adjacent serrated incisive margin, molar process either slender and pointed or absent; maxillule endite reflexed through about 90° and with five or six distal spines, one significantly more robust than the others; maxilliped endite flared. Cheliped with triangular, dorsally-inserted sclerite, fixed finger with two ventral setae, bifid terminal spine and bifid or trifid distal denticle on incisive margin. Pereopods 1 to 3 with setae, unguis longer than slender dactylus, both together about as long as or longer than propodus, dactylus with proximal seta; pereopods 4 to 6 with spines on merus, carpus (three in number) and propodus. Pleopods with plumose seta along entire outer margin of exopod, but restricted to distal half of outer margin of endopod; uropods biramous, rami with one or two segments."
General References
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: 1-235
History of changes
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| 17-Apr-2013 | ADDED |