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Eucopia sculpticauda Faxon 1893

Description

Eucopia sculpticauda Faxon, 1893

Distribution. Atlantic, including Caribbean, Indo-Pacific. Mauritania, Bay of Bengal, off Seychelles, Philippines, Hawaii, Peru Trench, W-Africa, South Africa, Comores, Madagascar, Indonesia, southern California and Oregon, east coast of Greenland, Golfe de Gascogne, Antarctica.

Depth range. 850–6000 m.

Habitat. Meso- to bathypelagic or bathypelagic as adult.

Iberian Seas published records. South Bay of Biscay (Fage 1942). Off Calician and Asturias coasts (Lagardère 1983, 1985). Off Calician coasts (Nouvel 1943). Azores / Biscay rise close to the margin of the Iberian- Abyssal Plain (42ºN–17ºW: Angel et al. 1982, Hargreaves 1985). Off Portugal (41º37'N – 12º36'W: Tattersall 1955). South Canary Islands-Cape Bojador (Illig 1930). Off Gulf of Cádiz (Nouvel 1943). Offshore species related to the Canary Archipelago (Wittmann & Wirtz 1998, Haroun & Garrido 2003, Wittmann et al., 2004 Wittmann & Riera 2012). Madeira (Wittmann & Riera 2012). Azores, Madeira and Canaries (Fage 1942, Nouvel 1943). Atlantic coast of Morocco (Furnestin 1957). Off South Morocco (24º30’N – 17º01’W: De Jong & Casanova 1997b, Wittmann & Riera 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Vicente, Carlos San, 2016, An annotated check-list of lophogastrids (Crustacea: Lophogastrida) from the seas of the Iberian Peninsula, pp. 481-502 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on page 487, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/261351

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Eucopiidae
Genus
Eucopia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lophogastrida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Faxon
Species
sculpticauda
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eucopia sculpticauda Faxon, 1893 sec. Vicente, 2016

References

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  • Fage, L. (1942) Mysidacea Lophogastrida. II. The Carlsberg Foundation's oceanographical expedition round the world 1928 - 1930 and previous " Dana " expeditions under the leadership of Prof. Johannes Schmidt. Dana Report, 4 (23) 1 - 67.
  • Lagardere, J. P. (1983) Les mysidaces de la plaine abyssale du Golfe de Gascogne 1. Familles des Lophogastridae, Eucopiidae et Petalophthalmidae. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Serie 4, 5 (3), 809 - 843.
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