Genus Zeuxo Templeton, 1840

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• Zeuxo Templeton, R. 1840. Description of a minute crustaceous animal, from the island of Mauritius. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 2: 203-207 [203].

  Type species:

   Zeuzo westwoodiana Templeton, 1840 by method unknown.
• Parazeuxo Sieg, J. 1980. Taxonomische Monographie der Tanaidae Dana, 1849 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 537: 1-267 [217] [as Zeuxo (Parazeuxo) Sieg, 1980].

  Type species:

   Zeuxo maledivensis Sieg, 1980 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Sieg, J. 1983. Crustaceorum Catalogus editus a H.-E. Gruner & L.B. Holthuis Pars 6. Tanaidacea. The Hague : Dr W. Junk 552 pp.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Larsen, K., Tuya, F. & Froufe, E. 2014. MtDNA and nuclear differentiation for tanaidaceans (Crustacea, Peracarida) with low dispersal ability. Scientia Marina 78: 81-90

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Other Regions

Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Distribution References

General References

Edgar, G.J. 2008. Shallow water Tanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) of Australia. Zootaxa 1836: 1-92 [46] (diagnosis; key to Australian species)

Larsen, K. 2014. New species of the genus Zeuxo (Peracarida, Tanaidacea). Crustaceana 87: 715-754

Sieg, J. 1980. Taxonomische Monographie der Tanaidae Dana, 1849 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 537: 1-267 (split Zeuxo into two subgenera, Zeuxo (Zeuxo) and Zeuxo (Parazeuxo))

Sieg, J. 1983. Crustaceorum Catalogus editus a H.-E. Gruner & L.B. Holthuis Pars 6. Tanaidacea. The Hague : Dr W. Junk 552 pp. [228]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	TANAIDIDAE Dana, 1849	25-Aug-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
05-Aug-2022		08-May-2014	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED