Apseudidae Leach, 1814

Santos, Kátia Christol Dos & Hansknecht, Tom, 2007, Taraxapseudes n. gen., Taraxapseudes diversus (Lang, 1968) n. comb. and two new species of Atlantapseudes B cescu, 1978 (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) from Brazil and Madagascar, with a key for the genus, Zootaxa 1639, pp. 23-39 : 26

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Atlantapseudes B ă cescu, 1978

Type-species: Atlantapseudes nigrichela Băcescu, 1978 .

Diagnosis. Chela and pereopod 1 without exopods. Propodus of pereopod 1 shortened, bearing spines on the dorsal and ventral margins grouped in a fanlike arrangement. Squama of antenna reduced, linguiform with two terminal seta. Eye spines present; eyes without visual elements. Lateral margin of carapace with paired spinelike apophysis, often accompanied by small setae. Oostegites absent on chela and found on pereopods 1- 4. Five pairs of biramous pleopods, with exopod 2-articled, present only in mature males, with rami bearing multiple setae.

(Modified after Băcescu, 1978; Meyer & Heard, 1989; Guţu, 1996 and Larsen, 2005 along with material described herein, illustrations in the literature and an undescribed species from the South China Sea available to TJH)

Species composition (Table 2). Atlantapseudes brasiliensis sp. nov.; Atlantapseudes cyanea Bamber, 2007 ; Atlantapseudes lindae Meyer and Heard, 1989; Atlantapseudes madagascariensis sp. nov.; Atlantapseudes nigrichela Băcescu, 1978 .

References

Bacescu, M. (1978) Atlantapseudes nigrichela n. g., n. sp., Tanaidace nouveau capture par le navire Thalassa dans les eaux portugaises. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 19, 317 - 322.

Bamber, R. (2007) New apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea) from the bathyal slope off New Caledonia. Zoosystema, 29 (1), 51 - 81.

Gutu, M. (1996) The description of Spinosapseudes n. g., and amended diagnoses of two genera of Tanaidacea (Crustacea). Revue Roumaine de Biologie (Serie de Biologie Animale), 41, 87 - 93.

Larsen, K. (2005) Deep sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Crustaceana Monographs - 5, 381 p.

Meyer, G. & R. W. Heard (1989) Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Gulf of Mexico. VII. Atlantapseudes lindae, n. sp. (Apseudidae) from the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Research Reports, 8, 97 - 105.