Antiplotanais actuarius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Paratanaoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Peracarida Ordo: Tanaidacea Subordo: Tanaidomorpha Superfamilia: Paratanaoidea

Familia: Typhlotanaidae
Genus: Antiplotanais
Species: Antiplotanais actuarius

Name

• Antiplotanais actuarius Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2012: 166, figs 111–113

Holotype: Museum Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), (J58529), ♂, 31 January 1981; coll. M.F. Gomon.

Type locality: Western Bass Strait, 26 km SW of Cape Otway, Stn BSS 120, 39º01.0'S 143º22.1'E, 84 m depth, medium sand.

Etymology: From the Latin actuarius – a shorthand writer, a pun referring to the shorter chela (“hand”) in proportion to the cheliped carpus in this species when compared with the other two described species of Antiplotanais.

References

• 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: 1–235. BHL. Reference page. 

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• Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M. 2007a: A revision of the family Typhlotanaidae Sieg 1984 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) with the remarks on the Nototanaidae Sieg, 1976. Zootaxa, 1598: 1–141.