Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64: 107–148 (2007) ISSN 1447-2546 (Print) 1447-2554 (On-line) http://museumvictoria.com.au/Memoirs/ New apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from eastern Australia: Apseudidae, Whiteleggiidae, Metapseudidae and Pagurapseudidae MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ1,2 AND ROGER N. BAMBER3 1Laboratory of Polar Biology and Oceanobiology, University of Łodz, Banacha 12/16, PL-90-237 Łodz, POLAND, (
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[email protected]) Abstract Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M., and Bamber, R. N. 2007 New apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from eastern Australia: Apseudidae, Whiteleggiidae, Metapseudidae and Pagurapseudidae. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64: 107–148. Investigation of apseudomorph tanaidacean material collected between 1979 and 1984 from Bass Strait and held in the collections of Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, has revealed eight new species, fi ve in Apseudidae (including one new genus), two in Metapseudidae (including one new genus) and one in Pagurapseudidae. These taxa are described below. The new apseudid genus Annexos shows great similarity to Apseudes sensu stricto, but is without an exopod on the cheliped or on pereopod 1. Two new species of Apseudes show a common feature of maxilliped spination in eastern Australian taxa; Spinosapseudes colobus sp. nov., the second species of this genus, is described from a similar geography to the fi rst, but is distinguished by the proportionately more compact articles of the antennular and antennal peduncles, the mandibular palp and the pereopods. Pugiodactylus syntomos sp.