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Neopleustes kussakini

Description

Neopleustes kussakini (Budnikova, 1995)

Figures 1g, 4g, 5f, 22

Parapleustes (?) kussakini Budnikova, 1995: 15–21, figs. 4–7.— Budnikova & Bezrukov 2003: 208.

Neopleustes kussakini (Budnikova, 1995) — Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: 98–100, fig. 28.— Dzhurinskyi 2013: 135.

Distribution: North-West Pacifica: Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea in depth range of 80–185 m on stones, pebbles, shell, various sands and silt (Budnikova 1995; Budnikova & Bezrukov 2003; Dzhurinskyi 2013). In our collections it is absent.

Remarks. The distal process of palp segment 3 of maxilliped is present, but not conspicuous (Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: Tzvetkova, personal communication).

Notes

Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2021, Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Crustacea Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Subfamily Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994, pp. 267-306 in Zootaxa 4974 (2) on page 296, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4775545

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pleustidae
Genus
Neopleustes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Budnikova
Species
kussakini
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Neopleustes kussakini (Budnikova, 1995) sec. Labay, 2021

References

  • Budnikova, L. L. (1995) Two new species of the family Pleustidae (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) from the shelf of western Sakhalin. Zoologicheskiy zhurnal, 74 (2), 9 - 22. [in Russian]
  • Budnikova, L. L. & Bezrukov, R. G. (2003) Composition and distribution of amphipods (Amphipoda: Gammaridea, Caprellidea) on the shelf and upper slope of eastern Sakhalin Island. Izvestia TINR O, 135, 197 - 220. [in Russian]
  • Hendrycks, E. A. & Bousfield, E. L. (2004) The amphipod family Pleustidae (mainly subfamilies Mesopleustinae, Neopleustinae, Pleusymtinae and Stenopleustinae) from the Pacific coast of North America: systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, 3 (4), 45 - 113.
  • Dzhurinskyi, V. L. (2013) Suborder Gammaridea. In: Sirenko, B. I. (Ed.), Check-list of species of free-living invertebrates of the Russian Far Eastern seas. Explorations of the fauna of the seas, 75 (83), pp. 123 - 138.