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Cranocephalus scleroticus

  • 1. Animal Taxonomy and Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan- 384265, Gujarat, India dimplethacker 789 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3101 - 0028
  • 2. Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Lab, Department of Zoology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India kjpatel 8460 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0810 - 4210
  • 3. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland bavayia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3256 - 2123
  • 4. Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda Reina Mercedes 6, 41012, Sevilla, Spain jmguerra @ us. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6050 - 4997
  • 5. Department of Marine Invertebrates, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia SA 5000 wolfgang. zeidler @ samuseum. sa. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4133 - 9698 Corresponding author: jntrivedi 26 @ yahoo. co. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1308 - 7104

Description

90. Cranocephalus scleroticus (Streets, 1878)

Type locality: North Pacific Ocean.

Synonyms: Cranocephalus goesi Bovallius, 1890; Cranocephalus thai Sudara, 1975; Oxycephalus scleroticus Streets, 1878; Oxycephalus typhoides Claus, 1879; Stebbingella Théeli Bovallius 1890.

Distribution. World: North Pacific Ocean (Streets 1878), Gulf of Mexico (Felder & Camp 2009), India (Pillai 1965a).

India: Western India Ecoregion: Goa (Pillai 1965a); South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Pillai 1965a).

Genus: Glossocephalus Bovallius, 1887

Notes

Published as part of Thacker, Dimple, Patel, Krupal, Myers, Alan, Guerra-García, José M., Zeidler, Wolfgang & Trivedi, Jigneshkumar, 2023, Annotated Checklist of Marine Amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of India, pp. 1-90 in Zootaxa 5340 (1) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8324090

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References

  • Streets, T. H. (1878) Pelagic Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1878, 276 - 290.
  • Claus, C. (1879) Die Gattungen und Arten der Platysceliden in Systematischer Ubersicht. Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institut der Universitat zu Wien und der Zoologischen Station Triest, 2, 147 - 198.
  • Felder, D. L. & Camp, D. K. (Eds.) (2009) Gulf of Mexico: origin, waters, and biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas, 1393 pp.
  • Pillai, N. K. (1965 a) Pelagic amphipods in the collections of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, India: Part I. Family Oxycephalidae. In: Proceedings of the symposium on Crustacea, Ernakulam 12 - 15 January 1965 Part I. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 1965, pp. 169 - 204.
  • Bovallius, C. (1887) Systematical list of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 11 (16), 1 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 5127