WoRMS name details
Metatiron brevidactylus (Pillai, 1957) sensu Ledoyer (1979)
1605455 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1605455)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Status The 5 specimens from Madagascar reported as Metatiron brevidactylus by Ledoyer (1979) differ in many points from Pillai’s...
Status The 5 specimens from Madagascar reported as Metatiron brevidactylus by Ledoyer (1979) differ in many points from Pillai’s (1957) and Rabindranath’s (1972) descriptions. The specimens appear to belong in Minitiron on account of the strongly curved basis of gnathopod 1, but description and illustrations lack necessary additional evidence, e.g. the type of spine-setae on maxilla 1 outer plate. Hence, I do not feel the species is sufficiently well defined to propose a new name for it. It is removed to Minitiron sp. pending further studies. [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Metatiron brevidactylus (Pillai, 1957) sensu Ledoyer (1979). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1605455 on 2025-04-10
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Nomenclature
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Ledoyer, M. (1979). Les Gammariens de la pente externe du Grand Récif de Tuléar (Madagascar) (Crustacea Amphipoda). <em>Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, (ser 2).</em> 2, 1-149; 91 figs. [details] Available for editors 
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Just, J. (2022). Tirons of the world: a review of 'tironid' amphipods, description of new genera and species, and establishment of a new subfamily Tironinae Stebbing, 1906 stat. nov. (Crustacea, Synopiidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5139(1): 1-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5139.1.1
page(s): 76; note: The 5 specimens from Madagascar reported as Metatiron brevidactylus by Ledoyer (1979) differ in many points from Pillai’s (1957) and Rabindranath’s (1972) descriptions. The specimens appear to bel...
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page(s): 76; note: The 5 specimens from Madagascar reported as Metatiron brevidactylus by Ledoyer (1979) differ in many points from Pillai’s (1957) and Rabindranath’s (1972) descriptions. The specimens appear to bel...
The 5 specimens from Madagascar reported as Metatiron brevidactylus by Ledoyer (1979) differ in many points from Pillai’s (1957) and Rabindranath’s (1972) descriptions. The specimens appear to belong in Minitiron on account of the strongly curved basis of gnathopod 1, but description and illustrations lack necessary additional evidence, e.g. the type of spine-setae on maxilla 1 outer plate. Hence, I do not feel the species is sufficiently well defined to propose a new name for it. It is removed to Minitiron sp. pending further studies.
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Status The 5 specimens from Madagascar reported as Metatiron brevidactylus by Ledoyer (1979) differ in many points from Pillai’s (1957) and Rabindranath’s (1972) descriptions. The specimens appear to belong in Minitiron on account of the strongly curved basis of gnathopod 1, but description and illustrations lack necessary additional evidence, e.g. the type of spine-setae on maxilla 1 outer plate. Hence, I do not feel the species is sufficiently well defined to propose a new name for it. It is removed to Minitiron sp. pending further studies. [details]
