Abstract
Two new species of tanaids were collected from colonization traps deployed in a shallow water, sandy habitat off Akajima, Nansei Islands. One new parapseudidaen, Parapseudes arenamans, and one new nototanaidaen genus and species, Paranesotanais longicephalus, are described herein. A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the closest genera confirms the validity of the new genus and suggests a close affinity between the Leptocheliidae and Nototanaidae. Paranesotanais longicephalus was by far the most abundant species in the habitat. Parapseudes arenamans is faster in colonization of vacant substrate (opportunistic species), while being an inferior competitor to Paranesotanais longicephalus later in succession. A key to Nesotanais and Paranesotanais is provided.References
Băcescu, M. (1977) Heterotanais longidactylus n. sp. and Synapseudes mediterraneus n. sp., Tanaidacea new from the eastern Mediterranean fauna. Revue Roumaine de Biologie (Biologie Animale), 21(1), 119–125.
Bamber, R.N. (In press) Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop: In: P. Davie (ed.). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Queensland Museum, Brisbane.
Bamber, R.N., Bird, G.J. & Angsupanich, S. (2003) Peracarid crustaceans from Thailand: New records and new species. Asian Marine Biology, 18, 35–69.
Bird, G.J. & Holdich, D.M. (1989) Recolonization of artificial sediment in the deep Bay of Biscay by tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida), with a description of a new species of Pseudotanais. Journal of Marine Biology Association of the United Kingdom, 69, 307–317.
BªaÛewicz-Paszkowycz, M. (2007) A revision of the family Typhlotanaidae Sieg 1984 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) with the remarks on the Nototanaidae Sieg, 1976. Zootaxa, 1598: 141 pp.
Boone, P.L. (1923) New marine tanaid and isopod Crustacean from California. Proceedings of the biological society of Washington, 36, 147–156.
Brown, A.C. (1958) Report on the tanaidacean Crustacea of the Langebaan Lagoon and Saldanha Bay, on the west coast of South Africa. Annals of Magazine of Natural History, 13(1), 453–458.
Desbruyères, D., Bervas, J.Y. & Khripounoff, A. (1980) Un cas de colonization rapid d’un sédiment profound. Oceanologica Acta, 3, 285–291.
Grassel, J.F. (1977) Slow recolonization of deep-sea sediment. Nature, London, 265, 618–619.
Grassle, J.F. & Grassle J.P. (1974) Oppertunistic life histories and genethic systems in marine benthic poluchaetes. Journal of Marine Research, 32, 253–284.
Grassle, J.F. & Morse-porteous, L.P. (1987) Macrofaunal colonization of disturbed deep-sea environments and the structure of deep-sea benthic communities. Deep-Sea Research, 34(12), 1911–50.
Grube, A.E. (1864) Die insel Lussin und ihre Meeresfauna. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau, pp. 1–116.
Gutu, M. (1981) A new contribution to the systematics and phylogeny of the suborder Monokonophora (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Travaux du Muséum d́Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa, 23, 81–108.
Guţu, M. & Iliffe, T.M. (1989) Description of two new species of Tanaidacea (Crustacea) from the marine water caves of the Palau Islands (Pacific Ocean). Travaux du Muséum d́Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa, 30, 169–180.
Krasnow, L.D. & Taghon, G.L. (1997) Rate of tube building and sediment size selection during tube construction by the tanaid crustacean Leptochelia dubia. Estuaries, 20(3), 534–546.
Lang, K. (1966) Taxonomische und phylogenitische unterschungen über die Tanaidaceen, 2. Die gattung Parapseudes G.O. Sars, Akiv för Zoologi, 2, 549–566.
Lang, K. (1968) Deep-sea Tanaidacea. Galathea Reports, 9, 23-209.
Lang, K. (1973) Taxonomische und phylogenetische Untersuchungen Über die Tanaidaceen (Crustacea). 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. (2001) Morphological and molecular investigation of polymorphism and cryptic species in tanaid crustaceans: Implications for tanaid systematics and biodiversity estimates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(3), 353–379.
Larsen, K. (2003) Proposed new standardized anatomical terminology for Tanaidacea (Peracarida). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 23(3), 644–661.
Larsen, K. (2005). Deep-Sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea; Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Crustacean Monographs, 5, Brill, Leiden, 381 pp.
Larsen, K. & Shimomura, M. (2006) Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. I. Apseudomorpha from the East China Sea, Seto inland Sea, and Nansei Islands. Zootaxa, 1341, 29–48.
Larsen, K. & Shimomura, M. (2007) Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. II. Tanaidomorpha from the East China Sea, the west pacific, and the Nansei Islands. Zootaxa, 1464, 1–43.
Levin, L.A. & Smith, C.R. (1984) Response of background fauna to disturbance and enrichment in the deep-sea: a sediment tray experiment. Deep-Sea Research, 31a. 1277–1285.
McCall, P.L. (1977) Community patterns and adaptive strategies of the infaunal benthos of Long Island Sound. Journal of Marine Research, 35, 221–266.
Menzies, R.J. (1953) The Apseudid chelifera of the eastern tropical and north temperate Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 107, 443–496.
Miller, M.A. (1940) The Isopod Crustacea of the Hawaiian Islands. (Chelifera and Valvifera). Occasional Papers from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 15(26), 295–321.
Nowell, A.R. & Jumars, P.A. (1984) Flow environments of aquatic benthos. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 15, 303–328.
Rees, E.I.S., Nicholaidou, A. & Laskaridou, P. (1977) The effects on of storm on the dynamics of shallow water benthic associations. In: Keegan, B.F., Ceidigh, P.O., Boaden, P.J.S. (eds.) Biology of benthic organisms. Pergamon Press, New York, pp 467–477.
Richardson, H. (1905) A monograph on the Isopods of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin, 54, 1–727.
Richardson, H. (1906) Sur les Isopodes de l’expedition Francaise Antarctique. Bulletin de Museum Naturelle Paris, 12, 187–189.
Sars, G.O. (1882) Revision af gruppen: Isopoda Chelifera med characteristik af nye herhen hørende arter og slægter. Archiv for Matematik og Naturvidenskab, 7, 1–54.
Sars, G.O. (1886) Bidrag til kundskaben om Middelhavets invertebratfauna III: Middelhavets Saxisopoder (Isopoda, Chelifera). Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab, 11, 263–368.
Scheibel, W. & Rumohr, H. (1979) Meiofauna development on artificial soft bottoms in Kiel Bay. Helgoländer wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, 32, 305–312.
Sherman, K.M. & Coull, B.C. (1980) The response of meiofauna to sediment disturbance. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 46, 59–71.
Shiino S.M. (1952) A new genus and two new species of the order Tanaidacea found at Seto. Publications from the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, II(2), 53–68.
Shiino, S.M. (1968) A tanaid crustacean, Nesotanais lacustris gen. et sp. nov. from Lake Tegano, Rennell Islands. Natural History of the Rennell Islands and British Solomon Islands, 5, 153–168.
Sieg, J. (1983) Tanaidacea. In: H.E. Gruner and L.B. Holthius, (Eds.), Crustaceorum Catalogus Pars 6. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Den Hague, pp. 552.
Sieg, J. & Heard, R.W. (1985) Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Gulf of Mexico. IV. on Nototanioides trifucatus gen. nov. sp. nov. with a key to the genera of the Nototanaidae. Gulf Research Report, 8(1), 51–62.
Smith, C.R. (1985) Colonization studies in the Deep-Sea: are results biased by experimental designs? In: Proceedings of the 19th European Marine Biological Symposium, Plymouth, 1984 P.E. Gibbs (ed.) pp 183–189. Cambridge: Cambridge University press.
Snelgrove, P.V.R. & Butman, C.A. (1994) Animal-sediment relationships revisited: cause versus effect. Oceanographic Marine Biological Annual Review, 32, 111–177.
Zajac, R.N. & Whitlach, R.B. (1982) Responses of estuarine infauna to disturbance. II. Spatial and temporal variation of initial recolonization. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 10, 15–27.