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Lepesubchela christinae CHRISTINAE JOHANSEN & VADER 2015

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LEPESUBCHELA CHRISTINAE JOHANSEN & VADER, 2015

Lepesubchela christinae Johansen & Vader, 2015: 28–32, figs 17–19.

Type locality: North Atlantic, south of Faeroe Islands, 59°40.4’N, 09°20.6’W, 1414 m.

Remarks: Lepesubchela christinae was not encountered in the IceAGE collections. This species is only known from the holotype specimen, a 4 mm individual that is here assumed to be a juvenile based on the comparatively small body size.

Depth range: 1414 m.

Distribution: south-west of the Faeroes (Johansen & Vader, 2015) (Fig. 9B; Tables 1, 2).

Notes

Published as part of Lörz, Anne-Nina, Brix, Saskia, Jażdżewska, Anna M. & Hughes, Lauren Elizabeth, 2020, Diversity and distribution of North Atlantic Lepechinellidae (Amphipoda: Crustacea), pp. 1095-1122 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 on page 1118, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa024, http://zenodo.org/record/5722220

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  • Johansen PO, Vader W. 2015. New and little known species of Lepechinella (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lepechinellidae) and an allied new genus Lepesubchela from the North Atlantic. European Journal of Taxonomy 127: 1 - 35.