Tumidochelia cf. dentifera ( G.O. Sars, 1896 )

Bird, Graham J., 2007, Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976 *, Zootaxa 1599, pp. 61-85 : 74

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scientific name	Tumidochelia cf. dentifera ( G.O. Sars, 1896 )
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Tumidochelia cf. dentifera ( G.O. Sars, 1896) View in CoL

(restricted synonymy and bibliography)

Leptognathia dentifera G.O. Sars, 1896: 30 , plate XIV fig.2. Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970: 353 [doubtful synonymy]. Tumidochelia dentifera ( G.O. Sars, 1896) View in CoL : Larsen & Shimomura, 2007: 8, fig. 3.

Remarks. The genus Tumidochelia is an Akanthophoreus -like taxon, largely characterized by a relatively short antennule article 1 and inner spiniform process on the uropod basal article. The original diagnosis (and repeated by Larsen & Shimomura 2007 in the enlargement of the genus) is in error in stating that the cheliped carpal shield is on the inner face – it is on the outer face.

Tumidochelia dentifera View in CoL , principally a shelf and shallow-bathyal species from west European waters (see Sieg 1983), has been doubtfully recorded from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench ( Kudinova-Pasternak 1970), at 4895–6225 metres while another species, T. knighti Larsen & Shimomura, 2007 View in CoL , has been recently described from bathyal depths (635–654 metres) off Okinawa.