Neotanais Beddard 1886
- Dataset
- Two new species of family Neotanaidae (Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from the Antarctic and Mid-Pacific Oceans
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Tanaidacea
- family
- Neotanaidae
- genus
- Neotanais
diagnosis
Diagnosis. For females, see Weigmann & Guerrero-Kommritz (2009: 21) Gender. Masculine
materials_examined
Type species. Neotanais americanus Beddard, 1886 Generic remarks. According to Larsen (2005) and Bamber (2007) the following combination of characters have been useful to distinguish the species (females): relative length / width (l / w) of cephalothorax, pereonites, pleotelson, cheliped propodus, antennae, and uropods; the shape of pleonal ventral keel; number of cheliped dorsal carpal setae; the l / w of the cheliped fixed finger and dactylus; proportions of article 1 and relative lengths of the distal articles of the antennule; relative length of the uropod exopod with the first article of the uropod endopod and the adult size.
Name
- Homonyms
- Neotanais Beddard 1886
- Neotanais