Zeuxo Templeton 1840
Creators: name: Edgar, Graham J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaididae
Zeuxo

description: Key to Australian species of Zeuxo (including subantarctic species)   
1. Four or five uropod articles in mature individuals.....................................................................................2  
- Six or seven uropod articles in mature individuals..................................................................................... 4  
2. Four uropod articles in mature individuals..................................................................................................3  
 - Five uropod articles in mature individuals....................................................... Zeuxo nannioggae Bamber   
 3. Antennule basal article less than 3.5 times as long as wide, fourth article of antenna less than twice as long as wide...................................................................................................................... Zeuxo mooneyi n. sp.   
 - Antennule basal article more than 3.5 times as long as wide, fourth article of antenna more than 2.5 times as long as wide.............................................................................................................................................. .............. Zeuxo phytalensis Sieg (subantarctic species known from Heard Island, Edgar & Burton 2000)   
 4. Strongly digitate anterior bulge on coxa of pereopod 1, sexes similar, inhabits gastropod shells................ ............................................................................................................................................ Zeuxo shepherdi   
 - Anterior bulge on coxa of pereopod 1 either slightly indented or rounded, sexually dimorphic................5   
5. Lacinia mobilis of left mandible well developed and tooth-like, lacinia mobilis of right mandible peg-like.................................................................................................................................................................... 6  
- Lacinia mobilis of left mandible peg-like, lacinia mobilis of right mandible reduced to thorn or absent.. 7  
 6. Pleopod with five setae on outer margin of basal article; three projecting setae on coxa of pereopod 1; one aesthetasc on female antennule................................................................................. Zeuxo angua Bamber   
 - Pleopod with six setae on outer margin of basal article; four projecting setae on coxa of pereopod 1; two or three aesthetascs on female antennule ........................................................ Zeuxo normani (Richardson)   
7. Pleopod with single seta on inner margin of endopod; lacinia mobilis of right mandible absent...............8  
- Pleopod with three to six setae on inner margin of endopod; lacinia mobilis of right mandible thorn-like.....................................................................................................................................................................9  
 8. Dorsal surface with dark stripes near posterior margin of pereonites .............................. Zeuxo russi n. sp.   
 - Dorsal surface with dark scattered patches of pigment.................................................... Zeuxo belli n. sp.   
 9. Pleopod basal article with six setae on outer margin, endopod with three setae on inner margin................ .................................................................................................................................... Zeuxo kirkmani n. sp.   
 - Pleopod basal article with nine setae on outer margin, endopod with five or six setae on inner margin...... ................................................................................................................................ Zeuxo odohertyae n. sp.
description: Published as part of Edgar, Graham J., 2008, Shallow water Tanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) of Australia, pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 1836 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1836.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127398