A tanaid (Leptognathia paramanca)
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Researched by | Andrew Hosie | Refereed by | Admin |
Authority | Lang, 1958 | ||
Other common names | - | Synonyms | - |
Summary
Description
Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland
Recorded from the Orkney Islands, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland.Global distribution
Leptognathia paramanca has only been recorded from Northern France outside of British waters.Habitat
Like many tanaid species Leptognathia paramanca is found in soft sediments. Leptognathia paramanca has been reported in shell-sand at 45-65 m depth and in muddy sand with gravel and shell at 30 m depth where it probably lives in burrows in the top most layer of sediment.Depth range
-Identifying features
- Long, narrow body shape.
- Uniramous uropods (exopod absent).
- Pleopods absent in females.
- Relatively long pleonites.
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Bibliography
Datasets
NBN (National Biodiversity Network) Atlas. Available from: https://www.nbnatlas.org.
OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System), 2024. Global map of species distribution using gridded data. Available from: Ocean Biogeographic Information System. www.iobis.org. Accessed: 2024-11-21
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Last Updated: 14/10/2008