WoRMS taxon details
Metatiron Rabindranath, 1972
415628 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415628)
accepted
Genus
Pseudotiron brevidactylus Pillai, 1957 accepted as Metatiron brevidactylus (Pillai, 1957) (type by monotypy)
- Species Metatiron bonaerensis Alonso de Pina, 1998
- Species Metatiron brevidactylus (Pillai, 1957)
- Species Metatiron triocellatus (Goeke, 1982)
- Species Metatiron tropakis (J.L. Barnard, 1972)
- Species Metatiron brevidactylus (Pillai, 1957) sensu Ledoyer (1979) accepted as Minitiron brevidactylus (Pillai, 1957) sensu Ledoyer (1979) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Metatiron caecus Ledoyer, 1979 accepted as Minitiron caecus (Ledoyer, 1979) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Rabindranath P. (1972e). Three species of gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea) from the Trivandrum Coast, India. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 188, 84-97; 5 figs.;. [details] Available for editors 
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Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copila?-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2024). World Amphipoda Database. Metatiron Rabindranath, 1972. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415628 on 2024-04-23
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Rabindranath P. (1972e). Three species of gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea) from the Trivandrum Coast, India. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 188, 84-97; 5 figs.;. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Just, J. (2022). Tirons of the world: a review of 'tironid' amphipods, description of new genera and species, and establishment of a new subfamily Tironinae Stebbing, 1906 stat. nov. (Crustacea, Synopiidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5139(1): 1-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5139.1.1
page(s): 76; note: Key to species [details] Available for editors [request]
[request] identification resource Just, J. (2022). Tirons of the world: a review of 'tironid' amphipods, description of new genera and species, and establishment of a new subfamily Tironinae Stebbing, 1906 stat. nov. (Crustacea, Synopiidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5139(1): 1-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5139.1.1
page(s): 76; note: Key to species [details] Available for editors
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Editor's comment Metatiron Rabindranath (1972) was raised for Tiron brevidactylus (Pillai, 1957), a species lacking a mandibular palp, in contrast to the genotype T. spiniferus (Stimpson, 1853) which has a 3-article palp. Opinion has been divided on the validity of Metatiron Rabindranath (1972), M. caecus Ledoyer, 1979, M. bonaerensis Alonso de Pina, 1998 and Thomas (1993, unpublished report) who transferred T. triocellatus Goeke, 1982, accept the separation while Just (1981) and Jazdzewski (1990) do not. The latter author argues for an amendment of the generic diagnosis to read ‘mandibular palp present or absent’.
Goeke (1982) and Hirayama (1988) do not refer to Rabindranath (1972). Barnard & Karaman (1991) recognise Metatiron (to include M. brevidactylus and M. caecus) but continue to define Tiron as having a 3-article palp despite earlier (Barnard, 1972) describing T. tropakis as lacking a mandible palp. Lörz & Coleman (2013) ignore the problem. They list twelve species in Tiron of which five, according to their key copied from Jazdzewski (1990), lack a palp (bellairsi, galeatus Hirayama, 1988, ovatibasis Hirayama, 1988, triocellatus, tropakis). [details]
