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Apseudes ranma Matsushima & Kakui, 2024
1762941 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1762941)
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Matsushima, Y.; Kakui, K. (2024). <i>Apseudes ranma</i> sp. nov. (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) found in a public aquarium, with notes on phylogeny and a presumptive stridulatory organ. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 100: 451–469; 25 July, 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2024.0030 [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype ICHUM 8627, verbatimGeounit Port of Nagoya...
, Type locality contained in Japan , Note Type Material.—Holotype: preparatory...
Holotype ICHUM 8627, verbatimGeounit Port of Nagoya Publi... [details]
type locality contained in Japan [details]
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Type material Type Material.—Holotype: preparatory hermaphrodite, ICHUM8627 (BL 6.53 mm, CW 1.45 mm), dissected, 16 slides; descendant of individual collected at PNPA on 14 June, 2009 or 12 April, 2010. [details]
Etymology The specific name is an indeclinable noun referring to Ranma Saotome, the lead character in the Japanese manga “Ranma...
Nomenclature This taxon name became available on 25 July 2024 as the original publication (Matsushima & Kakui 2024) was published on 25...
Etymology The specific name is an indeclinable noun referring to Ranma Saotome, the lead character in the Japanese manga “Ranma 1/2” created by Rumiko Takahashi. In the story, Ranma can change sex back and forth from male to female when doused with boiling or cold water, respectively. The hermaphroditic condition of the new species reminded us of Ranma. [details]
Nomenclature This taxon name became available on 25 July 2024 as the original publication (Matsushima & Kakui 2024) was published on 25...
Nomenclature This taxon name became available on 25 July 2024 as the original publication (Matsushima & Kakui 2024) was published on 25 July 2024. [30 July 2024; by Keiichi Kakui] [details]
WoRMS (2025). Apseudes ranma Matsushima & Kakui, 2024. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1762941 on 2025-04-03
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Matsushima, Y.; Kakui, K. (2024). <i>Apseudes ranma</i> sp. nov. (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) found in a public aquarium, with notes on phylogeny and a presumptive stridulatory organ. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 100: 451–469; 25 July, 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2024.0030 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Kakui, K.; Hiruta, C. (2013). Selfing in a malacostracan crustacean: why a tanaidacean but not decapods. <em>Naturwissenschaften.</em> 100(9): 891-894., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1079-5 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Kakui, K.; Suzuki, A.; Nakano, H.; Kohtsuka, H. (2017). Habitat of a tanaidacean Apseudes nipponicus Shiino, 1937. <em>Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History).</em> 15: 1-3., available online at https://doi.org/10.34522/kmnh.15.0_1 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Kakui, K.; Hiruta, C.; Uyeno, D. (2019). Sexual system in the tanaidacean <i>Falsapseudes bowmani</i> (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida). <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 138(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12257 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Kakui, K.; Hiruta, C. (2023). Differential masculinization of the chelipeds in two simultaneously hermaphroditic Apseudes tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Malacostraca). <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 305: 23-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2023.05.004 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Kakui, K.; Hiruta, C. (2024). A smaller species releases proportionally larger juveniles in Apseudes (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea). <em>CBM-Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 65: 35-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.F7E539FB [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Kakui, K.; Fleming, J. F.; Mori, M.; Fujiwara, Y.; Arakawa, K. (2021). Comprehensive Transcriptome Sequencing of Tanaidacea with Proteomic Evidences for Their Silk. <em>Genome Biology and Evolution.</em> 13(12)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab281 [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Shiraki, S.; Kakui, K. (2022). Observations on Predation in Paranthura japonica Richardson, 1909 (Isopoda: Cymothoida: Paranthuridae). <em>Zoological Science.</em> 39(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs210122 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]biology source Kakui, K.; Suzuki, A.; Nakano, H.; Kohtsuka, H. (2017). Habitat of a tanaidacean Apseudes nipponicus Shiino, 1937. <em>Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History).</em> 15: 1-3., available online at https://doi.org/10.34522/kmnh.15.0_1 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Kakui, K.; Hiruta, C.; Uyeno, D. (2019). Sexual system in the tanaidacean <i>Falsapseudes bowmani</i> (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida). <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 138(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12257 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Kakui, K.; Hiruta, C. (2023). Differential masculinization of the chelipeds in two simultaneously hermaphroditic Apseudes tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Malacostraca). <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 305: 23-27., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2023.05.004 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Kakui, K.; Hiruta, C. (2024). A smaller species releases proportionally larger juveniles in Apseudes (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea). <em>CBM-Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 65: 35-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.F7E539FB [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Kakui, K.; Fleming, J. F.; Mori, M.; Fujiwara, Y.; Arakawa, K. (2021). Comprehensive Transcriptome Sequencing of Tanaidacea with Proteomic Evidences for Their Silk. <em>Genome Biology and Evolution.</em> 13(12)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab281 [details] Available for editors
[request]biology source Shiraki, S.; Kakui, K. (2022). Observations on Predation in Paranthura japonica Richardson, 1909 (Isopoda: Cymothoida: Paranthuridae). <em>Zoological Science.</em> 39(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs210122 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ICHUM 8627, verbatimGeounit Port of Nagoya Publi... [details]
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Diagnosis Rostrum triangular, wider than long. Carapace without lateral spines; anterolateral margin with 4–5 lateral setae. Eye lobes distinct, round. Pereonites 1–6 without lateral spines. Pereonites 3–6 with pair of tongue-shaped anterolateral projections. Pleotelson with two pairs of lateral projections. Pereopod-1 basis with ventro-subproximal spine. Pereopod-2 merus with three ventrodistal spiniform setae. Pereopod-3 merus with three ventrodistal spiniform setae; carpus with outer distal spiniform seta; propodus with three outer spiniform setae. Pereopod-4 merus with two or three mid-ventral spiniform setae; propodus with three or four ventral spiniform setae. [details]Etymology The specific name is an indeclinable noun referring to Ranma Saotome, the lead character in the Japanese manga “Ranma 1/2” created by Rumiko Takahashi. In the story, Ranma can change sex back and forth from male to female when doused with boiling or cold water, respectively. The hermaphroditic condition of the new species reminded us of Ranma. [details]
Nomenclature This taxon name became available on 25 July 2024 as the original publication (Matsushima & Kakui 2024) was published on 25 July 2024. [30 July 2024; by Keiichi Kakui] [details]
Type material Type Material.—Holotype: preparatory hermaphrodite, ICHUM8627 (BL 6.53 mm, CW 1.45 mm), dissected, 16 slides; descendant of individual collected at PNPA on 14 June, 2009 or 12 April, 2010. [details]
