Tanaidacea from Brazil: III. new records and description of a new species collected from REVIZEE-NE Program

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Catarina L. Araújo-silva¹  Kim Larsen¹ 

[1] ,University of Porto (Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental) Laboratory for Marine Community Ecology and EvolutionPorto,Portugal

关键词: northeastern Brazil;    Peracarida;    Paratanaidae;    Paratanais;    Tanaidacean;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-64972012000200002

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

A new species of Paratanais Dana, 1852, Paratanais coelhoi sp. nov., is described and new records for Paradoxapseudes intermedius (Hansen, 1895), Intermedichelia gracilis Guţu, 1996, Vestigiramus sp., Nototanoides cf. trifurcatus Sieg and Heard, 1985, Biarticulata sp. and Arhaphuroides sp. are provided from northeastern Brazil based on collections from the REVIZEE-NE Program. This raises the number of tanaidacean species from the Brazilian coast from 45 to 49. Paratanais coelhoi sp. nov. shares morphological features such as habitus shape, maxilliped palp setation, and cheliped proportions with P. oculatus (Vanhöffen, 1914), P. martinsi Bamber and Costa, 2009, P. tara Bird, 2011 and P. euelpis Barnard, 1920. The new species can, however, be distinguished by a unique combination of characters including: pleonites 1-4 with lateral circumplumose setae while the 5th with simple seta only; antennule article 1 stout; cheliped propodus with one specialized outer 'S'-shaped broad seta; pereopod 1 merus length with 1.7 times as long as wide; pereopod 2 merus without ventral spiniform seta; uropodal endopod biarticulate, exopod uniarticulate as well as other characters.

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