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Pleustes tuberculatus Spence Bate 1858

  • 1. Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science (IMF) Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) University of Hamburg, Grosse Elbstrasse 133, 22767 Hamburg, Germany. & Senckenberg am Meer, Abteilung Meeresforschung, Südstrand 40, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
  • 2. University Museum Bergen, Department for Natural History, University of Bergen, PO Box 7800, NO- 4020 Bergen, Norway. & Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum, Abteilung Marine Zoologie, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. & Anne-Nina.

Description

Pleustes tuberculatus Spence Bate, 1858

Figs 18–19

Pleustes tuberculata Bate, 1858: 362.

Pleustes panoplus tuberculatus Gurjanova, 1951: 637.

Pleustes tuberculata – Sars 1895: 344. — Stebbing 1906: 311. — Stephensen 1938: 253.

Pleustes panoplus tuberculatus – Gurjanova 1972: 148, figs 4B, 6. (Kara Sea).

Diagnosis

A diagnosis can be found in Bousfield & Hendrycks (1994): 39.

Material examined

E GREENLAND – off Scoresbysund • 1 adult, 5.2 mm, SEM stub; E Greenland shelf; 63.5666667°N, 39.3°W; depth 219 m; 25 Oct. 2001; WH233, station 1016; collected with Rauschert dredge; ZMH-K 44487a • 1 spec., SEM stub; same data as for preceding; K44487 b • 1 spec., SEM stub; same data as for preceding; ZMH-K 44487c • 5 specs, ethanol preserved specimen; same collection data as for preceding; ZMH-K 56230, ZMH-K 56231, ZMH-K 56240, ZMH-K 56241, ZMH-K 56242 • 1 spec., E Greenland Shelf; 63.6000°N, 37.6833°W; depth 238 m; 24 Oct. 2001; WH233, station 1013; collected with Rauschert Dredge; ZMH-K 065823. See Figs 18–19 • 2 specs; same data as for preceding; ZMH-K 56228, ZMH-K 56229.

Ecology

Associated with hydroids (Marin & Sinelnikov 2017).

Distribution

North Atlantic.

Notes

Published as part of Lörz, Anne-Nina & Tandberg, Anne Helene S., 2025, North Atlantic Pleustidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with a focus on cold-water coral associations, pp. 1-50 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1009 on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1009.3017, http://zenodo.org/record/16940753

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References

  • Bate C. S. 1858. On some new genera and species of Crustacea Amphipoda. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 3: 361-362.
  • Gurjanova E. F. 1951. Amphipods of the seas of the U. S. S. R. and adjacent waters (Amphipoda - Gammaridea). Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 41: 1-1029 [In Russian.]
  • Stebbing T. R. R. 1906. Das Tierreich. 21. I. Gammaridea. Amphipoda. Verlag von R. Friedlander and Sohn, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1224
  • Stephensen K. 1938. The Amphipoda of N. Norway and Spitsbergen with adjacent waters. TromsO Museums Skrifter 3 (2): 141-278.
  • Gurjanova E. F. 1972. Some new species of amphipods (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) from the northwestern part of Pacific and high Arctic. Novye vidy morskikh i nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh. Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 52: 129-200. [in Russian]
  • Bousfield E. L. & Hendrycks E. A. 1994. A revision of family Pleustidae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea). Part 1. Systematics and biogeography of component subfamilies. Amphipacifica 1 (1): 17-57.
  • Marin I. N. & Sinelnikov S. Y. 2017. Amphipod assemblage found on sublittoral hydroids in the white sea with the special remarks to symbiotic association of stenothoid Metopa alderi with hydroid Tubularia larynx. Ukrainian Journal of Ecology 7 (4): 473-479. https://doi.org/10.15421/2017_146