Teleotanais Lang, 1956

Larsen, Kim, Sahoo, Gobardhan & Ansari, Zakir Ali, 2013, Description of a New Mangrove Root Dwelling Species of Teleotanais (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from India, with a Key to Teleotanaidae, Species Diversity 18, pp. 237-243 : 237-238

Genus Teleotanais Lang, 1956

Revised diagnosis. Female. With mottled dorsal pigmentation. Eye lobes and pigmented eyes present. First four pleonites each bearing pair of articulated, plumose midlateral setae, last pleonite bearing pair of simple midlateral setae. Antenna articles 2 and 3 without dorsodistal spiniform setae, article 3 with proximal, medial, and distal dorsal setae. Maxillule with palp bearing one or two distal setae. Maxillipedal endite not expanded, distally armed with single seta and two or three fine, pointed spine. Fixed finger of cheliped with raised inner ridge. Carpus of pereopods 2–3 without spiniform setae. Posterior pereopods with distal spiniform seta on merus, carpus, and propodus; dactylus plus unguis claw-shaped but these elements unfused. Basal articles of pleopods with single dorsal plumose seta. Uropods shorter than pleotelson; exopod with two articles, endopod with one or two articles.

We believe that the presence of a maxillular palp with only one seta in T. warragamba , as recorded by Bamber (2008), is likely to be an artefact as it would otherwise be unique in the Tanaidacea .

Species included: Teleotanais gerlachi Lang, 1956 (type species), T. indiaensis sp. nov., T. warragamba Bamber, 2008 .