Apseudes poorei Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007

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 : 3-4

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1447-2554

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12208907

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scientific name

Apseudes poorei Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007
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Apseudes poorei Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007 View in CoL

A. poorei Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b View in CoL , 120–125, figs 7–9.

Xanthapseudes poorei Guţu, 2008a View in CoL , 39.

Remarks. Apseudes poorei is very similar to A. bucospinosus Guţu, 2006 , a species from Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef (depth not recorded), although the pereopods of the latter species are not fully described. An unusual distinguishing feature of A. poorei is the presence of plumose setae on the bases of pereopods 2 and 4; the two species are distinguished further on the setation of the mouthparts and the morphology of the cheliped, inter alia. A. bucospinosus has strong inner-distal “spiniform processes” rather than spines on the first and second maxilliped palp articles. Guţu (2008a) assigned these two species to a new genus, Xanthapseudes , on the basis of an assumed similarity in the character of spines or spine-like apophyses on the proximal maxilliped palp articles. In fact, in this character, A. poorei is much closer to A. abditospina , yet quite distinct on a number of other characters (for example, the anterolateral spiniform apophyses on the pereonites and the hook-like apophyses on the anterior pereopod bases of the latter species). It is therefore evident that this character of one article of the maxilliped palp alone is not a sufficient basis on which to distinguish a separate genus.

Apseudes poorei was found throughout the Bass Strait, between 38º00' and 40º23'S and 144º05' and 148º37'E, and from 13 to 82 m depth on sandy substrata.

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

Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M., and Bamber, R. N. 2007 b. New apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from EasternAustralia: Apseudidae, Whiteleggiidae, Metapseudidae and Pagurapseudidae. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64: 107 - 148.

Gutu, M. 2006. New apseudomorph taxa (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) of the world ocean. Curtea Veche: Bucharest. 318 pp.

Gutu, M. 2008 a. New data on the genus Paradoxapseudes Gutu, 1991, including the description of a new species. The synonymisation of Gollumudes Bamber, 2000 with Paradoxapseudes and the description of a new apseudid genus (Crustacea: Tanaidacea). Travaux du Museum d'Histoire naturelle Grigore Antipa 51: 17 - 42.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Tanaidacea

Family

Apseudidae

Genus

Apseudes