Gollumudes Guţu, 1991

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 : 15-16

Gollumudes Guţu, 1991

Remarks. in a reanalysis of material from Cuba, the type locality for the then monotypic genus Paradoxapseudes, Guţu (2008a) revised the morphology of the type species, P. cubensis Guţu 1991 , and realised that Gollumudes Bamber 2000 is a junior synonym of Paradoxapseudes . As a result, he was able to assign 12 species to the genus, which now showed a worldwide distribution. The genus is partly characterized by the row of leaf-like propodal spines on pereopod 5, as well as the row on pereopod 6 found in other apseudomorphs (but see also Apseudes ). Owing to this new resource of information on the morphological variation within Paradoxapseudes (including Gollumudes ), the Bass-Strait material, including that attributed to “ G. ” larakia Edgar (1997) by Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber (2007b) was re-examined, and found to be of two distinct species, which are described below.

During the analysis of the morphology of all the taxa now included in Paradoxapseudes , it also became apparent that the material from Tanzania mentioned by Guţu (2007), and from the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea mentioned by Guţu (2008a), all attributed to the Japanese species P. littoralis ( Shiino, 1952) , was in fact not of that species (unlike P. littoralis , they have serrations on the antennule peduncle article 1, significantly more segments in the main flagellum of the antennule, and plumose, not simple, dorsal setae on the basis of pereopod 1, and the last two have far fewer leaf-like spines on the propodus of pereopod 5, inter alia). It is certainly quite unlikely that the material from Tanzania would be conspecific with a species from Japan. This material is considered to represent at least two further taxa, for which more detailed description is required before diagnosis and naming.