Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 1085 No. 1: 22 Nov. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-11-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1085.1.1
Page range: 1–19
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 7

New species of the genus Collettea Lang, 1973 (Peracarida:  Tanaidacea, Colletteidae) from the Antarctic

Department of Polar Biology and Oceanobiology, University of Lódz, Banacha 12/16, ½ódÔ 90-237, POLAND
Invertebrate Department, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 KBH, East, DENMARK
Crustacea Collettea Colletteidae Tanaidacea Peracarida Antarctic

Abstract

Three new species of Collettea Lang, 1973: C. alicjae, C. lilliputa and C. longipleona are described from the Antarctic, based on the collections made on board the R/V Eltanin and R/V Polarstern from the abyssal depth of range 2281–4304 m. Apart from the three species described in this paper three other Collettea species were found in the region of the West Antarctic but lack of the material prohibited formal description of those species. Currently 20 species belong to Collettea (including the six enumerated in this paper) are known from deep-sea location in all major oceans. A key for Collettea species is proposed. The genus is considered a deep-sea taxon and the few findings at localities with relatively shallow water are all at high latitudes which is considered a case of polar or isothermic emergence.

References

  1. Bamber, R.N. (2000) New peracarids (Crustacea; Malacostraca) from the Atlantic Deep Sea off Angola. Species Diversity, 5, 317–328.

    BªaÛewicz-Paszkowycz, M. (in press) Revision of the genus Peraeospinosus Sieg, 1986 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea). Journal of Natural History.

    Hessler, R.R. & Wilson, G.D.F. (1983) The origin and biogeography of malacostracan crustaceans in the deep-sea. In: W. Sims et al. (eds). Evolution, time and space: the emergence of the biosphere. Systematic Association, Special Volume, 23, 227–254.

    Kudinova-Pasternak, R.K. (1973) Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) collected on the R/V "Vitjaz" in regions of the Aleutian Trench and Alaska. Trudy Instituta okeanologii. Akademija Nauk SSSR, 91, 141–168.

    Lang, K. (1973) Taxonomische und phylogenetische Untersuchungen über die Tanaidaceen. 8. Die Gattungen Leptochelia Dana, Paratanais Dana, Heterotanais G.O. Sars und Nototanais Richardson. Dazu einige Bemerkungen über die Monokonophora und ein Nachtrag. Zoologica Scripta, 2, 197–229.

    Larsen, K. (1999) Deep-sea tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Albatross cruises 1885–86, with keys to the suborder Neotanaidomorpha. Journal of Natural History, 33(8), 1107–1132.

    Larsen, K. (2000) Revision of the genus Collettea (Crustacea: Tanaidacea). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 14, 681–693.

    Larsen, K. (2003) Proposed new standardized anatomical terminology to the Tanaidacea. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 23, 644–661.

    Sars, G.O. (1882) Revision af Gruppen: Isopoda Chelifera. Archiv for Matematik og Naturvidenskab, 7, 1–54.