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Primno abyssalis Bowman
Creators
Description
Primno abyssalis Bowman
Primno abyssalis Bowman, in Fulton, 1968:104,109.
Type material
The holotype female is in the USNM (Cat. no. 213613), and two female paratypes are in the collections of Scripps Institution of Oceanography: in spirit.
Remarks
This is the largest species of Primno, with adults reaching 21 mm in length. Bowman (1985) suggests that this species is derived from P. macropa, or its progenitor, which was originally limited to the southern hemisphere, but during the ice age ranged into the North Pacific. When the oceans warmed again the continuity was broken, leaving the North Pacific population isolated. Its distribution is now restricted to the subarctic province of the North Pacific Ocean.
Notes
Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Family
- Phrosinidae
- Genus
- Primno
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bowman
- Species
- abyssalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
References
- Fulton, J. (1968) A laboratory manual for the identification of British Columbia marine zooplankton. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Technical Report, 55, 1 - 141.
- Bowman, T. E. (1985) The correct identity of the pelagic amphipod Primno macropa, with a diagnosis of Primno abyssalis (Hyperiidea: Phrosinidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98 (1), 121 - 126.