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Title
  • en Phylogenetic Position of Arctotanais in the Suborder Tanaidomorpha (Peracarida : Tanaidacea)
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  • en This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Crustacean Biology following peer review. The version of record Journal of Crustacean Biology 32(1):127-139. 2012 is available online at:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1163/193724011X615406
Subject
  • Other en Arctotanais
  • Other en ischium
  • Other en molecular phylogeny
  • Other en Tanaidacea
  • Other en 18S
  • Other en rRNA
  • NDC 485
Description
  • Abstract en Lack of an ischium on pereiopods 1–6 was previously considered a synapomorphy for the tanaidacean superfamily Tanaoidea, although descriptions of Arctotanais alascensis (Richardson, 1899), the sole species in Arctotanais, indicated presence or absence of the ischium. To resolve this ambiguity, we examined newly collected specimens of A. alascensis (including males, which had not previously been described) from Hokkaido, Japan, using light and scanning electron microscopy. We also conducted molecular phylogenetic analyses based on partial sequences of the 18S rRNA gene to examine the phylogenetic position of A. alascensis. Here we describe in detail the morphology of the male of A. alascensis, which proved to be similar to that of the females. This species bears an ischium on pereiopods 1–6, which contradicts the current diagnoses of Tanaoidea and Tanaidae, although other synapomorphies remain valid. Molecular phylogenetic analyses strongly supported the placement of A. alascensis in Tanaoidea, and consequently we amended the diagnoses for Tanaoidea and Tanaidae to include either presence or absence of the ischium on the pereiopods.
Publisher en The Crustacean Society
Date
    Issued2012-01
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type AM
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/68343
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  • isVersionOf DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/193724011X615406
Journal
    • PISSN 0278-0372
    • EISSN 1937-240X
      • en Journal of Crustacean Biology
      • Volume Number32 Issue Number1 Page Start127 Page End139
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