Abstract
A new genus of Tanaidacea – Bunburia,collected from the region of Ningaloo in the vicinity of Bunbury (Western Australia), is erected to accommodate the new species – Bunburia prima sp. n. This genus is classified in the family Agathotanaidae and it can be distinguished from the other members of the family by having a combination of antennulae covered with minute setae, reduced uropods and unusual setation of the propodus of pereopods 4 to 6. Bunburia prima is the second species of Agathotanaidae known so far from Australia.
Highlights
The family Agathotanaidae erected by Lang (1971a) is represented by 41 species in four genera, namely Agathotanais Hansen, 1913, Metagathotanais Bird and Holdich, 1988, Paragathotanais Lang, 1971 and Paranarthrura Hansen, 1913 (Anderson 2012)
The uropod exopods of Agathotanaidae is reduced to a blunt spur and only the presence of distal and middle setae suggests it is a fused exopod rather than a basis process
Another character that Larsen has pinpointed as diagnostic for Agathotanaidae is cheliped attached directly to the cephalothorax or via pseudocoxa, it was later questioned by Larsen (2007) and Bird (2010)
Summary
The family Agathotanaidae erected by Lang (1971a) is represented by 41 species in four genera, namely Agathotanais Hansen, 1913, Metagathotanais Bird and Holdich, 1988, Paragathotanais Lang, 1971 and Paranarthrura Hansen, 1913 (Anderson 2012).
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