Family NOTOTANAIDAE Sieg, 1976

Nototanais dimorphus

© Copyright from Beddard 1886.

Museums

Regional Maps

Introduction

The nototanaidids are concentrated in southern hemisphere shelf environments. In all, four genera are known (Bird & Larsen 2009). Sieg (1973) described the family first in his doctoral thesis and formally later (1976). He (1984) added the monotypic Nesotanaidinae by excluding it from the Anarthruridae. There is one species known from Australia.

Diagnosis

With or without eyes. Pleon with 5 pleonites. Antenna 1 3– or 4–articled. Antenna 2 6–articled. Labium consisting of outer and inner lobe, without terminal palp. Epignath falciform. Maxilliped without coxae, bases medially fused. Dactylus and terminal spine of pereopods 4–6 fused to a slender claw. Pleopodal setation reduced to some degree. Uropods biramous, endopod 2–articled, exopod 1– or 2–articled. Marsupium formed by 4 pairs of sheet-like oostegites. Sexual dimorphism well developed, affecting antenna 1, cheliped and body shape; but males never developed as "swimming males".

General References

Bird, G.J. & Larsen, K. 2009. Tanaidacean phylogeny – the second step: the basal paratanaoidean families (Crustacea: Malacostraca). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 67: 137-158

Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. 2007. A revision of the family Typhlotanaidae Sieg 1984 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) with the remarks on the Nototanaidae Sieg, 1976. Zootaxa 1598: 1-141

Gutu, M. & Sieg, J. 1999. Ordre des tanaïdacés (Tanaidacea Hansen, 1895). 353-389 in Forest, J. Traité de Zoologie. Anatomie, systématique, biologie … Tome 7 Crustacés. Fascicule 3A Péracarides. Mémoires de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 19: 1-450

Larsen, K. 2005. Deep-Sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Leiden : Brill 381 pp.

Larsen, K. & Wilson, G.D.F. 2002. Tanaidacean phylogeny, the first step: the superfamily Paratanaidoidea. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 40: 205-222

Sieg, J. 1973. Ein Beitrag zum Natürlichen System der Dikonophora Lang. (Textteil, Tafelteil). PhD thesis. Kiel : University of Kiel 298 pp.

Sieg, J. 1976. Zum natürlichen System der Tanaidacea Lang (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 14: 177-198

Sieg, J. 1984. Neuere Erkenntnisse zum natürlichen System der Tanaidacea. Eine phylogenetische Studie. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 136: 1-132