A new species of Apseudes (Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha: Apseudidae) from Hong Kong, with observations on Gollumudes mortoni (Bamber, 2001)

Abstract

A new species of a small apseudomorph tanaidacean, of the genus Apseudes, is described from the muddy‐sand benthos at 9 m depth in Telegraph Bay, south‐eastern Hong Kong. It differs from the only previously‐described species from Hong Kong waters, and from similar species from Vietnam, in having no lateral emarginations or apophyses on the pereonites, in having eyes and in the distinctive setation of the mandibular palp.

Keywords:

• Tanaidacea
• South China Sea
• Hong Kong
• Apseudes
• Gollumudes

Acknowledgements

I am inevitably most grateful to the diving team for the collection of this material, and to those participants of the 2002 cave expedition who sorted the material and obtained the environmental data (see elsewhere in these proceedings).