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Apseudes ranma sp. nov. (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) found in a public aquarium, with notes on phylogeny and a presumptive stridulatory organ

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Abstract
We describe Apseudes ranma sp. nov. from the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, Nagoya, Japan. It resembles two congeners, Apseudes curtiramus (Guţu, 2007) and Apseudes orghidani Guţu and Iliffe, 1989, in having the rostrum triangular, wider than long, the carapace without lateral spines, distinct and round eye lobes, pereonites 3–6 with a pair of tongue-shaped anterolateral projections, and the pleotelson with two pairs of lateral projections, but….

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Article Information:
Yoshinobu Matsushima, Keiichi Kakui
Apseudes ranma sp. nov. (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) found in a public aquarium in Nagoya, Japan, with notes on phylogeny and a presumptive stridulatory organ, Bulletin of Marine Science
DOI: 10.5343/bms.2024.0030