Pooreotanais gari Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2009

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 : 162

publication ID

1447-2554

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F060EED2-88C1-4A9A-92A7-6C06905F307B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12209021

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D587E8-4FE2-FF07-29EA-B209FDAAFCB6

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scientific name

Pooreotanais gari Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2009
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Pooreotanais gari Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2009 View in CoL

Pooreotanais gari Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2009 View in CoL , 7–11, figs 1–3.

Remarks. Pooreotanais gari was described from a male and a number of females and subadults collected from Western Port, Victoria, at depths between 13 and 18 m on a variety of substrata. The genus, and indeed the family Mirandotanaidae , is characterized by having a grossly inflated posterior half (or more) of the body, including the pleon and at least pereonite 6 (pereonites 4 to 6 in the present species). The function of this inflated posterior is unknown, but is unlikely to be related to reproduction as it is also shown by the male.

The only other species of Pooreotanais , P. ningaloo , is from Western Australia, and is distinct in having only pereonite 6 inflated, and the pleotelson longer than any pleonites (shorter in P. gari ), inter alia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Tanaidacea

Family

Mirandotanaidae

Genus

Pooreotanais

Loc

Pooreotanais gari Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2009

Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. & Bamber, R. N. 2012
2012
Loc

Pooreotanais gari Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2009

Blazewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber 2009
2009
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