Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 18: 20 Dec. 2001
Type: Article
Published: 2001-12-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.18.1.1
Page range: 1–11
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 4

Saltipedis navassensis, a new species of apseudomorph tanaidacean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Parapseudidae) from the tropical north-western Atlantic

Barry A. Vittor and Associates, 8060 Cottage Hill Road, Mobile, Alabama 36695, USA
Department of Coastal Sciences, College of Marine Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, P.O. Box 7000, Ocean Springs, MS 39566-7000, USA
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
Crustacea Tanaidacea Parapseudidae Saltipedis taxonomy Tropical N.W. Atlantic

Abstract

Saltipedis navassensis n. sp. is reported and described from a sand bottom at a depth of 24 m off Navassa Island in the northern Caribbean. The description of the new species includes the first known male for the genus along with the first record of Saltipedis from the northern Atlantic. Saltipedis navassensis can be distinguished from other females of the genus by having an antennule with a serrated inner peduncular margin and pereopod 2 with plumose setae on the basis and no spiniform seta on the merus. A key to the known species of Saltipedis is presented.

References

  1. Gardiner, L. F. (1973) Calozodion wadei, a new genus an species of apseudid tanaidacean (Crustacea) from Jamaica, West Indies. Journal of Natural History, 7, 499-507.

    Gu½u, M. (1995) A new subfamily and three new genera of Apseudomorpha (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa", 35, 17-28.

    Gu½u, M. (1996) Tanaidaceans (Crustacea, Peracarida) from Brazil, with descriptions of new taxa and systematical remarks on some families. Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa", 36, 23-133.

    Gu½u, M. (1998) Descriptions of three new species of Tanaidacea (Crustacea) from the Tanzanian coasts. Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa", 40, 179-209.

    Sieg, J. (1986) Crustacea Tanaidacea of the Antarctic and the Subantarctic. Antarctic Research Series, 45, 1-108.

    Silva Brum, I. N. da. (1971) Apseudes paulensis nova espécie de Tanaidacea de litoral Brasileriro (Crustacea). Arquivos do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, 55, 9-14.