Pugiodactylus Guţu, 1995

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 : 25

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scientific name	Pugiodactylus Guţu, 1995
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Genus Pugiodactylus Guţu, 1995 View in CoL

Pugiodactylus syntomos Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007 View in CoL P. syntomos Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b View in CoL , 131–132, figs 14–16.

Material examined. 1 brooding (J57921), Slope Stn. 49, 41º56.50'S 148º37.90'E, coarse bryozoan mud, 200 m depth, 27 July 1986, coll. M. Gomon et al., WHOI Epibenthic sled GoogleMaps .

Remarks. P. syntomos is distinct from the other four species, which have been described in this genus owing to its rounded rostrum, short cheliped carpus and more compact antenna, inter alia. It was distributed sparsely throughout the Bass Strait at between 9 and 200 m depth (the present specimen extending the deeper end of the range marginally), on muddy to coarse sand substrata and once on a predominantly rocky bottom. The genus is found from the Antarctic through Australia (Victoria and Queensland) to Malaysia and the South Pacific, usually in shallow waters.