Published April 3, 2019 | Version v1
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Cheloscina antennula Shih & Hendrycks 1996

Description

Cheloscina antennula Shih & Hendrycks, 1996

Southwest Atlantic: ex. 1013405, 5/397, [59°41’S 56°06’W], 2269 m.

Remarks: This is a very small species (about 3 mm or less), previously known only from the unique type, from the North Pacific, off the Alaskan Peninsular (53°20’N 155°16’W), from a depth of 700– 900 m. It is most likely a deep-water species preferring colder waters. The specimen recorded here seems to be this species and is thus recorded as a new record for the Antarctic Zone of the Southwest Atlantic Sector. Another two small specimens, referable to Cheloscina, were also found in the Antarctic Zone, just west of the Drake Passage by the Eltanin.

Notes

Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2019, New and additional records of hyperiidean amphipods of the infraorder Physosomata (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) from the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean, pp. 510-520 in Zootaxa 4576 (3) on page 515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3715770

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Mimonectidae
Genus
Cheloscina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Amphipoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Shih & Hendrycks
Species
antennula
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cheloscina antennula Shih, 1996 sec. Zeidler, 2019