Description: Body length up to 1.5 mm. Antenna 1 as long as the carapace and unusually narrow with the basal article longer than the remaining two together. Third article of antenna armed with two curved teeth. Pereionite 1 slightly shorter than pereionite 6. Ischia of pereiopods 1-3 each bear a long seta which projects at least to the distal end of the carpus. Uropods short, both rami one-articled with the endopodite almost twice the length of the exopodite.
Habitat: It occurs at depths from 90-1100 m.
Distribution: It is found along the Norwegian coast the Scottish east coast and it has also been dredged off western Ireland at 576 m.
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Crustacea Subclass Malacostraca Superorder Peracarida Order Tanaidacea Suborder Tanaidomorpha Family Leptognathiidae Genus Typhlotanais Species tenuicornis
Status in World Register of Marine Species
Not included in WoRMS database
Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species
Holdich, D.M. & J.A. Jones, 1983. Tanaids. Synopses of the British Fauna (N.S.), 27.
Sars, G.O., 1896-1897. An account of the Crustacea of Norway. Vol. II. Isopoda. The Bergen Museum.
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