Paratyphlotanais microcheles (Sars, 1882)

Bamber, Roger N., 2011, The marine fauna and flora of the Isles of Scilly. Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida), Journal of Natural History 45 (29 - 30), pp. 1801-1815 : 1811

Paratyphlotanais microcheles (Sars, 1882)

Typhlotanais microcheles Holdich and Jones, 1983 , 58–59; fig. 18.

Material

One ♀ (brooding), 49 ◦ 55.42 ′ N, 06 ◦ 16.42 ′ W, muddy sand with some shell breccia, 36 m depth, van Veen grab, 27 June 2009; 1♀ (brooding), 49 ◦ 56.56 ′ N, 06 ◦ 15.35 ′ W, muddy-sandy shell-gravel, 27 m depth, van Veen grab, 27 June 2009; 2♀♀ (1 brooding), 49 ◦ 57.86 ′ N, 06 ◦ 15.21 ′ W, shell-gravel in muddy sand, 35.1 m depth, van Veen grab, 27 June 2009; 1♀ (brooding), 49 ◦ 57.87 ′ N, 06 ◦ 15.18 ′ W, shell-gravel in muddy sand, 34.3 m depth, van Veen grab, 27 June 2009.

Remarks

Paratyphlotanais microcheles is not commonly recorded: Holdich and Jones (1983) and Bird (2004) list its range as from Norway to the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland and the Isle of Man, in fine to muddy sands at depths between 9 and 210 m. The present records extend its range further south: it was only found in muddy heterogeneous sediments in depths> 26 m. Not recorded previously from the Isles of Scilly.

The species was removed from Typhlotanais by Bird (2004, including synonymy and detailed description and figures), and the genus was removed from the Typhlotanaidae by Błażewicz-Paszkowycz (2007).