TYPHLOTANAIDAE Sieg, 1984

Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, 2005, Revision of the genus Peraeospinosus Sieg, 1986 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea), Journal of Natural History 39 (45), pp. 3847-3901 : 3849

Family TYPHLOTANAIDAE Sieg, 1984

Nototanaidae : Sieg 1976, p 185, 192, 195.

Typhlotanaidae : Sieg 1984, p 122.

Nototanaidae : Larsen and Wilson 2002, p 2, 7–8, 11, 13.

Diagnosis

Female. No plates in carapace. Eye absent. Pereonite 1 not reduced. Pleon with five free pleonites, as wide as pereon, no setae on pleonites. Antennule with three articles. Antenna with six articles. Molar process broad. Labium with two lobes, one tubercle in place of medial spiniform setae. Maxilliped basis at least partially fused, endites usually not fused, narrower than basis, with two tubercles on distal edge. Cheliped attachment usually via sclerite. Marsupium with four pairs of oostegites. Pereopods 4–6 clinging type, coxae absent. Pleopods well-developed. Uropod rami with one or two articles.

Male. Sexual dimorphism extensive. Antennule with more than five articles and multiple aesthetascs. Pleotelson with developed caudal process. Pereonites less developed, pleonites more developed than in female. Mouthparts reduced. Pleopods well-developed. Uropod endopod with one or two articles.

Genera included. Peraeospinosus Sieg, 1986 ; Typhlotanais G. O. Sars, 1882 ; Typhlotanoides Sieg, 1983 .