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Pseudharpinia obtusifrons Stebbing 1888

Description

Pseudharpinia obtusifrons (Stebbing, 1888)

Stebbing, 1888: 820–824, pl. 56. (Harpinia obtusifrons).

Della Valle, 1893: 747. (Harpinia neglecta, in part).

Stebbing, 1906: 143–144. (Harpinia obtusifrons).

Not Walker, 1907: 17. (Harpinia obtusifrons = Heterophoxus videns). Not Chilton, 1909: 619. (Harpinia obtusifrons = Proharpinia hurleyi, in part). Not Chilton, 1912: 477–478. (Harpinia obtusifrons = Heterophoxus videns). Not Thomson, 1913: 242. (Harpinia obtusifrons = Proharpinia hurleyi). Schellenberg, 1926: 195. (Harpinia obtusifrons).

Not Stephensen, 1927: 306-307, fig. 6. (Harpinia obtusifrons = Proharpinia hurleyi). Barnard J.L., 1958b: 116. (Harpinia obtusifrons).

Barnard J.L., 1960: 315, 316, 318, 319, 344, 347, 348, 355. (Harpinia obtusifrons). Barnard J.L., 1969: 414 (by implication).

Mills, 1972: 74, table 1. (Harpinia obtusifrons).

Arnaud, 1974: 546, table 14 (eco). (Harpinia obtusifrons). Bellan-Santini and Ledoyer, 1974: 639, 640, 694. (Harpinia obtusifrons). Lowry and Bullock, 1976: 129–130.

Barnard and Drummond, 1978: 534.

Bellan-Santini and Ledoyer, 1987: 351, 352, 353, 354, 418. (Harpinia obtusifrons). Barnard and Barnard, 1990: 116.

Barnard and Karaman, 1991: 629.

Branch et al., 1991: 10, 40, fig. on p. 10. (Harpinia obtusifrons). De Broyer and JaŻdŻewski, 1993: 85.

De Broyer and Rauschert, 1999: 286.

Valério-Berardo and Piera, 2006: 75, 81.

Distribution: W + S + M (+Ba)

Drake Passage: Polarstern ANT XV/3 48, Drake Passage, sta. 336, 61 °26.5’S 58°07.4’W, 1031 m (gear: Agassiz trawl) (MR unpubl.).

Iles Kerguelen: H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Kerguelen Islands, [49°15’S 69°10’E], 54–216 m (TRS 88); Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898–1899, Kerguelen Islands, shallow littoral (AS 26); NE Golfe du Morbihan, sta. Ker-B14, [49°25’S 70°08’E], 15 m (bottom: sand, mud); NW Golfe du Morbihan, Ile Australia, sta. Ker-B7, [49°28’S 69°51’E], 24 m (bottom: black mud) (BS&L 74).

Magellan Area: Magellan Victor Hensen Campaign 1994, Estrecho Bahía Voces, sta. 980, 53 °42.7’S 70°50.1’W, 522 m (gear: small dredge); Isla Picton, sta. 1192, 55 °06.7’S 67°01.6’W, 40 m (gear: small dredge) (MR unpubl.).

Marion and Prince Edward Islands: Marion Dufresne 0 8, sta. 12 BB 79, 46 °55.7’S 37°54.1’E, 95 m (bottom: sand, mud); sta. 15 BB 88, 46 °57.7’S 37°59.9’E, 204 m (bottom: coarse sand); sta. 17 DC 96, 46 °52.1’S 37°53.8’E, 112 m (bottom: sand, mud); sta. 17 BB 97, 46 °52.5’S 37°53.5’E, 110 m (bottom: sand, mud); sta. 18 DC 107, 46 °49.8’S 37°56.2’E, 140 m (bottom: sandy mud with bryozoans); sta. 18 BB 108, 46 °49.8’S 37°56.4’E, 138 m; sta. 18 RK 109, 138 m; sta. 19 BB 111, 46 °46.2’S 38°03.2’E, 190 m (bottom: mud); sta. 21 DC 118, 46 °53.3’S 37°52.8’E, 50 m (bottom: black sand); sta. 21 BB 119, 46 °53.3’S 37°53’E, 57 m (bottom: black sand); sta. 22 DC 124, 46 °52.4’S 37°51.9’E, 30 m (bottom: sand); sta. 22 BB 125, 31 m (bottom: sand); sta. 31 DC 156, 46 °59.05’S 37°46.06’E, 185 m (bottom: black sand, gravel); sta. 31 BB 157, 46 °59.5’S 37°46.8’E, 192 m (bottom: sand); sta. 34 DC 167, 46 °50.2’S 37°51.2’E, 115 m (bottom: compacted mud); sta. 34 BB 168, 46 °50.2’S 37°51.2’E, 110 m (bottom: compacted mud); sta. 35 DC 170, 46 °39.7’S 38°00.3’E, 53 m (bottom: gravel, blocks) (BS&L 87); 46º54’S 37º45’E – 46º38’S 37º57’E, 10–200 m (MLB et al. 91).

Depth range: Shallow littoral- 1031 m.

Type-locality: H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Kerguelen Islands, [49°15’S 69°10’E], 54–216 m (TRS 88).

Ecology: Collected from mud, sandy mud, sand, gravel, occasionally with bryozoans.

Type material location: NHM, London.

Remarks: See remarks under Pseudharpinia dentata. Pseudharpinia obtusifrons presents new records in the Magellan Area and in the Drake Passage (Rauschert, unpubl.).

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Published as part of Alonso, Gloria M., Pina, De, Rauschert, Martin & Broyer, Claude De, 2008, A catalogue of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) with taxonomic, distribution and ecological data, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 1752 on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181746

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