Collettea Lang, 1973

Bird, Graham J., 2020, Additions to the Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) of Rangitâhua, the Kermadec Islands, from the Southwest Pacific Expedition 2017, Zootaxa 4860 (2), pp. 151-178 : 152

Genus Collettea Lang, 1973

Strongylura G.O. Sars, 1882

Remarks. Collettea is an increasingly species-rich genus with 24 described species ( Table 2 ) at this time (WoRMS 2019), although it is likely to be polyphyletic (see also Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Larsen 2005). The most recent key to the species is by Wi et al (2015: 715). Using this, the new species described below would fail at couplet ‘3’ (its body proportions fall between the two values) or key to Collettea lilliputa Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Larsen, 2005 that was described from the abyssal Weddell Sea.