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Species Hargeria rapax

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)

Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)

Superorder Peracarida (Peracarida (Amphipods and Isopods))

Order Tanaidacea

Family Leptocheliidae

Genus Hargeria

Species rapax (Hargeria rapax)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hargeria rapax (Harger, 1879)

Leptochelia rapax Harger, 1879

Identification

Among southern New England Tanaidacea, males of this species can be distinguished from Leptochelia savigny "by the elongate and slender first antennae and the much more slender and elongate carpus and propodus of the chelate first gnathopods." Females differ in the number of joints (five, as opposed to six in L. savigny) of the inner ramus of the uropods.(1)

Range

Bay of Fundy to Caribbean, including Gulf of Mexico and Bermuda.

Habitat

0-1m depth

Internet References

WoRMS

Works Cited

1.	The Arthrostraca of Connecticut Kunkel B.W. 1918. Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey.

Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 12 September, 2015 - 4:57pm
Last updated 12 August, 2020 - 1:30pm

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