A new species of heterochelous tanaidacean Tanaissus (Paratanaoidea: Tanaissuidae) from the north-west Iberian Peninsula.

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Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, Campus de As Lagoas, 36310 Vigo, Spain Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Via Panoramica 36 4150-564 Porto, Portugal CIIMAR/CIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Rua dos Bragas, 289, 4050-123, Porto, Portugal; Email: unknown.

Published: August 2015

A new species of tanaidomorph, Tanaissus bamberi, is described from the north-western region of the Iberian Peninsula. Its most remarkable character is the presence of morphologically different right and left chelae in the males. The species occurs sympatrically with T. lilljeborgi, mainly in intertidal and subtidal sediments of medium to muddy sands typical of fully marine and estuarine salinities.

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