Metapseudes wilsoni 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 : 40

Metapseudes wilsoni Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007

M. wilsoni Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2007b , 141–146, figs

20–23.

Material examined. 1 specimen, Stn. BSS 198 , Western Bass Strait, 36 km SSW of Stokes Point, King Island , 40º26.7'S, 143º41.4'E, 85 m depth, medium sand, 22 November 1981, coll. R . Wilson , RV Tangaroa ; 1 brooding, Stn. BSS 203 , Central Bass Strait, 44 km NE of Cape Wickham, King Island , 39º22.0'S, 144º18.3'E, 60 m depth, coarse sand, 23 November 1981, coll. R . Wilson , RV Tangaroa. 1 (J57543), Stn SA62 , Flinders Island, “The Hotspot” reef, 5 n miles W of N end of Flinders Island , South Australia, 33º40.30'S 132º22.00'E, 17 m depth, tufted bryozoans on rock face, exposed, 19 April 1985, SCUBA, coll. G.C.B. Poore.

Remarks. The large type collection of this species was taken in the Eastern Bass Strait at 32 m depth; the present specimens extend the range through the Bass Strait, as well as to South Australia, and to a depth of 85 m. This, the second species of the genus, is most easily distinguished from the generally similar generotype, M. aucklandiae Stephensen, 1927 , described from New Zealand in shallow waters ( Stephensen, 1927, Gardiner, 1973) (depth range 0–113 m), by the more slender antennules and antennae, and the distinct form of the rostrum, inter alia.