Bamber, R.N., & Marshall, D.J. (2013). Tanaidaceans from Brunei III. A new genus and two new species of shallow-water Sphyrapodids (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from the South China Sea. Species Diversity. 18: 255-267.

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Bamber, R.N., & Marshall, D.J.

2013

18: 255-267

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A new genus of sphyrapodid tanaidaceans, Poligarida, represented by the two new species P. beni and P. keriakis, is described from samples o the coast of Brunei. With no mandibular palp, this genus falls within the subfamily Sphyrapodinae. With a normal sphyrapodid antennule bearing a two-segmented accessory agellum, and with no squama on the antenna, it is closest to Ansphyrapus, but is distinguished from that genus by lacking the complex setation of the pereopods and in having an elongate second article of the antennal peduncle. e latter feature is more characteristic of the Pseudosphyrapodinae, casting some doubt on the status of these two subfamilies. Poligarida gen. nov. is unique in the family inlacking a maxillular palp, and in having an unusual setose mandibular molar. Sphyrapus stebbingi Richardson, 1911 is tentatively reassigned to Pseudosphyrapus, and an identication key to the genera of the Sphyrapodidae is presented.

China Sea

Tanaidacea

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