Tanaella quintanai

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: Tanaellidae
Genus: Tanaella
Species: Tanaella quintanai

Name

Tanaella quintanai Morales-Núñez in Morales-Núñez & Ardila, 2019

Type locality: Offshore waters of Córdoba department (9°14′3.8″N–76°47′14.57″W), Colombia, South America.

Holotype: CBUMAG:MAC:01679. Non-ovigerous female, TL 2.6 mm, Station (Stn) E05PAC (9°14′3.8″N–76°47′14.57″W), depth 1,598 m, substrata: “muddy bottom”, 27-July-2014. [CBUMAG: Centro de Colecciones Biológicas, Universidad del Magdalena (Santa Marta, Colombia)]

Paratypes:

CBUMAG:MAC:01681. Non-ovigerous ♀ (dissected), TL 2.3 mm, Stn E15PAC (10°22′0.2″N–76°27′5.17″W), depth 2,821 m, substrata: “muddy bottom”, 26-July-2014.
CBUMAG:MAC:01680. Non-ovigerous ♀, TL 2.2 mm, Stn E04FND (10°26′55.54″N–76°15′25.29″W), depth 2,258 m, substrata: “muddy bottom”, 09-October-2015.
CBUMAG:MAC:01683. Non-ovigerous ♀ (damaged), TL 2.4 mm, Stn E06FSD (9°10′1.14″N–76°50′10.18″W), depth 1,659 m, substrata: “muddy bottom”, 25-April-2015.
CBUMAG:MAC:01682. ♀ with marsupium, TL 2.2 mm, Stn E13PAC (10°08′59.42″N–76°32′48.77″W), depth 2,423 m, substrata: “muddy bottom”, 26-July-2014.

Distribution: Colombian Caribbean at depths ranging from 1,598 to 2,821 m.

ZooBank: C9C6AD95-01BB-46F8-92D8-426916C451AD

References

Primary references

Morales-Núñez, A.G., Ardila, N.E. 2019. Tanaella quintanai, a new deep-water tanaellid (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from the Colombian Caribbean Coast, with a key to the species of the genus Tanaella Norman & Stebbing, 1886. PeerJ. 7: e7571. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7571 Reference page. [see p. 5-16, figs. 2-9; original description]

Links

BHL bibliography
Tanaella quintanai – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Tanaella quintanai.
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