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Schisturella pulchra

Description

Schisturella pulchra (Hansen, 1888)

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Tryphosa pulchra Hansen, 1888: 78, pl. 2 figs 6, 6e.― Stephensen, 1912: 582.

Schisturella pulchra.― Norman, 1900: 208.― Stebbing, 1906: 719.― Stephensen, 1923: 75.― Shoemaker, 1930: 13, figs 3-6. ― Gurjanova, 1935: 537.― Schellenberg, 1935: 18, fig. 3.― Stephensen, 1944: 25.― Gorbunov, 1946: 43.― Gurjanova, 1951: 212, fig. 79.―J.L. Barnard, 1958: 98.― Oldevig, 1959: 11.― Gurjanova, 1962: 197, figs 63A, B.― Gurjanova, 1964: 272.―J.L. Barnard, 1966: 71 (key).―J.L. Barnard, 1967: 72 (key).― Brunel, 1970: 36.― Bousfield, 1973: 287. ― Watling, 1979: 266 (table 1).― Just, 1980: 7 (table 2).―? Sekiguchi & Yamaguchi, 1983: 8, figs 5a, b.― Barnard & Ingram, 1990: 30 (key). ― Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 527.― Palerud & Vader, 1991: 42.― Vader & Johnsen, 2001: 489, figs 1, 2.― Tzvetkova & Golikov, 2001: 89.― Larsen, 2007: 14 (key).

Ambasia pulchra.― Stebbing, 1906: 52 (in part).

Types. Syntypes, 3 specimens, SMNH N. Amph. 517 and SMNH N. Amph. 9945.

Additional material examined. 3 males, AM P.35526, from Baie des Isle, Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada (49º10’N 58º15’W), 19 August 1965.

Type locality. Greenland: Sukkertoppen, 100 fathoms [182 m]; Christianshaab 15–30 fathoms (27.5–55 m); and Egedesminde, 80–100 fathoms [146–182 m].

Habitat. Marine, hard (stony) to soft (clay) bottoms.

Depth range. 27–2240 m (Hansen 1888, Gurjanova 1962).

Remarks. Hansen (1888) based his description of the species on an adult female (15 mm) from the syntypes series.

Distribution. Arctic. Coasts of Greenland (Hansen 1888, Schellenberg 1935, Stephensen 1944); Kara Sea (Gurjanova 1935); Northern Norway and Svalbard (Vader & Johnsen 2001). North Atlantic Ocean. Northwest of Shetland (Norman 1906); Gulf of St Lawrence (Shoemaker 1930). North Pacific Ocean. Sea of Okhotsk (Gurjanova 1962);? Enshu-nada and Kumano-nada, Japan (Sekiguchi & Yamaguchi 1983).

Notes

Published as part of Kilgallen, N. M. & Lowry, J. K., 2014, The Tryphosa group (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae), pp. 501-545 in Zootaxa 3768 (5) on page 519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4909684

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AM , SMNH
Event date
1965-08-19
Family
Uristidae
Genus
Schisturella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hansen
Species
pulchra
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Verbatim event date
1965-08-19
Taxonomic concept label
Schisturella pulchra (Hansen, 1888) sec. Kilgallen & Lowry, 2014

References

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