Xanthapseudes Guţu, 2008,

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 : 2-3

Genus Apseudes Leach, 1814

Xanthapseudes Guţu, 2008 , new synonymy.

Apseudes abditospina (Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007) comb. nov.

Figure 2

Annexos abditospina Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b ,

111–116, figs 1–3.

Remarks. On its original description, Annexos abditospina was attributed to a new genus of the Apseudinae owing to its not having exopodites on the cheliped nor on pereopod 1. Re-examination of paratypes of this species has found that it does indeed have exopodites on both of these appendages ( Fig. 2), although they readily break off. Both are of three articles, that on the cheliped has seven marginal plumose setae on the distal article, while the exopodite on pereopod 1 has five.

The species is therefore transferred to the genus Apseudes , of which Annexos becomes a junior synonym. A. abditospina was compared with, and distinguished from, other Australian species of Apseudes during its original description ( Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b). With the discovery of exopodites on the cheliped and pereopod 1, A. abditospina sits comfortably with that group of typical Apseudes which includes the generotype, A. talpa (Montagu, 1808) .

There are distinct proximal hook-like apophyses on the bases of the first three pereopods of this species, a feature known elsewhere only in A. atuini (Bamber 2005) , from Western Australia, although in that species they are also present on the posterior pereopods. Like Apseudes poorei (Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007) (see below), this species has distinct articulated inner-distal spines on the first and second maxilliped palp articles. For discussion of the relevance of this feature to Guţu’s (2008a) suggested genus Xanthapseudes see under remarks for A. poorei below.

This species was found throughout the Bass Strait, between 38º43' and 40º22'S and 144º18' and 148º24'E, and from 22 to 79 m depth on sandy to coarse shell substrata.