Two new species of Sinelobus Sieg, 1980 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaididae), and a correction to the higher taxonomic nomenclature

Abstract

The tanaidid genus Sinelobus was long considered to be monotypic, comprising a cosmopolitan species, S. stanfordi, predominantly associated with restricted, largely hypohaline waters. Recent discoveries of distinct species of Sinelobus in Australia have prompted closer examination of material from localities remote from the Central American Pacific coast (the type-locality of S. stanfordi). Re-examination of material from the Netherlands (north-east Atlantic) and from Hong Kong (South China Sea) has resulted in the distinction of two new species, which are described herein. Problems with the familial nomenclature of this taxon have been identified, and the family name is corrected to Tanaididae.

http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:811604EA-B3B2-4ED5-8F86-3527BDF635D7

Keywords:

• Sinelobus
• Tanaididae
• cosmopolitanism
• South China Sea
• north-east Atlantic

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Ton van Haaren of Grontmij Nederland B.V. and Mirjam Kuitert of the Rijkwaterstaat Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, for loans and donations of the Netherlands material and sample-site data, to Miranda Lowe of the Natural History Museum, London, for the loan of the Hong Kong material, and to Gray Williams of SWIMS, Hong Kong, for his attempts to relocate the other material collected in Hong Kong in 1998. I am also grateful to Svetlana Nikolaeva of the ICZN for bringing to my attention the problems with the nomenclature of the Tanaidae (inter alia).