Metatanais progenitor Bird, 2015

Bird, Graham J., 2020, Additions to the Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) of Rangitâhua, the Kermadec Islands, from the Southwest Pacific Expedition 2017, Zootaxa 4860 (2), pp. 151-178 : 172

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4A6F899C-DCB6-4A05-B4FB-C07EC8219951

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4537439

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/402B5515-FFC8-5D27-08A5-3DA9CE08FD15

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Plazi

scientific name

Metatanais progenitor Bird, 2015
status

 

Metatanais progenitor Bird, 2015 View in CoL

Fig. 12F View FIGURE 12

Metatanais progenitor: Bird (2015) View in CoL : 392 –396, figs 21–25, 400, table 2; Bird (2019): 71, table 10.

Material examined. 1 manca-III, 1.2 mm, 2 non-ov. ♀♀, 1.5–1.6 mm, AMS P.105580, SWP2017-135-2; 1 non-ov. 2.0 mm, AMS P.103212, SWP2017-135.

Distribution. Denham Bay, Raoul Island, 3– 18 m.

Remarks. The previous records of this distinctive species also came from Raoul Island or other smaller islands in the group, at 10–27 m (ibid: 392, 396), although the new record is potentially from even shallower water. The body length of non-ovigerous females now extends to 2.0 mm, and the manca-III stage is now recorded. A similar species from Hawaii, M. spinipropodus Morales-Núñez, Pelleteri & Heard, 2016 adds to the species diversity of the genus, now recorded from Japan and Australia in addition to the Kermadecian and Hawaiian taxa. Metatanais progenitor remains the only described species to have females bearing pleopods.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Tanaidacea

Family

Paratanaidae

Genus

Metatanais

Loc

Metatanais progenitor Bird, 2015

Bird, Graham J. 2020
2020
Loc

Metatanais progenitor: Bird (2015)

Bird, G. J. 2019: 71
Bird, G. J. 2015: 392
2015
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