Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen 1923
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Description
Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen, 1923
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Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen, 1923: 76, figs 15, 16.―J.L. Barnard, 1958: 95 (list).― Lincoln, 1979: 40.― Palerud & Vader, 1991: 38.― Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 503.— Sainte-Marie, 1991: 217, appendix 1.
Types. Syntypes, 1 male and 1 female, both 6 mm, ZMUC CRU-6388; many specimens, ZMUC CRU-6389, from Thor Stn 78. 8 specimens from Thor stn 99, 7 females (all with oostegites?) 5–6 mm, 1 adult male, about 8 mm, ZMUC CRU-6390.
Type locality. South-west of the Faeroe Islands north-east Atlantic Ocean at 835 m depth (61°07'N 9°30'W), and 900 m depth (61°05'N 9°35'W).
Depth range. 835–900 m (Stephensen 1923).
Remarks. This species appears to have only been collected once, at two separate stations, with a limited distribution near the Faeroe Islands (Stephensen 1923). It is extremely distinctive with a parachelate gnathopod 1 and vestigial gnathopod 1 coxa. In the original description of the species Stephensen (1923) specified that his description and illustrations were based on a 6 mm ovigerous female and an 8 mm adult male from the syntypes series.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZMUC
- Family
- Lysianassidae
- Genus
- Metambasia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- CRU-6388 , CRU-6389 , CRU-6390
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Stephensen
- Species
- faeroensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen, 1923 sec. Kilgallen & Lowry, 2014
References
- Stephensen, K. (1923) Crustacea Malacostraca, V: (Amphipoda, I). Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 3, 1 - 100.
- Barnard, J. L. (1958) Index to the families, genera, and species of the gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea). Allan Hancock Foundation Publications, Occasional Paper, 19, 1 - 145.
- Lincoln, R. J. (1979) British Marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - v, 1 - 658.
- Palerud, R. & Vader, W. (1991) Marine Amphipoda Gammaridea in north-east Atlantic and Norwegian Arctic. Tromura, Naturvitenskap, 68, 1 - 97.
- Barnard, J. L. & Karaman, G. S. (1991) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, 13, 1 - 866. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.13.1991.367
- Sainte-Marie, B. (1991) A review of the reprodictive bionomics of aquatic gammaridean amphipods: variation of life history traits with latitude, depth, salinity and superfamily. Hydrobiologia, 223, 189 - 227. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / bf 00047641