Bird, G.J. (2004). The Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) of the North-East Atlantic: the shelf and bathyal Paratyphlotanais of the 'Atlantic Margin'. Journal of Natural History. 38: 1359-1384.

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Bird, G.J.

2004

38: 1359-1384

Publication

Increasing oil-exploration activity and associated ecological surveying west of the Shetlands is leading to the discovery of many poorly known or undescribed tanaidaceans. Three species of the typhlotanaid genus Paratyphlotanais Kudinova-Pasternak and Pasternak, 1978 have been recorded from shelf and bathyal depths between Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the western margin of the British Isles. Two, P. gracilipes (Hansen) and P. microcheles (G. O. Sars), formerly belonging to the genus Typhlotanais, are redescribed and a new species is described. A key to their identification is included. Inhabiting largely discrete zoogeographic areas, these species help define regional macrofaunal associations.

North Atlantic

Tanaidacea

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