Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen 1923

• Main Authors: Kilgallen, N. M., Lowry, J. K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Lysianassidae; Metambasia; Metambasia faeroensis; Arctic; Lowry; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4909706; https://zenodo.org/record/4909706

Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen, 1923 (Fig. 4) Metambasia faeroensis Stephensen, 1923: 76, figs 15, 16.―J.L. Barnard, 1958: 95 (list).― Lincoln, 1979: 40.― Palerud & Vader, 1991: 38.― Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 503.— Sainte-Marie, 1991: 217, appendix 1. Types. Syntypes, 1 male and 1 female, both 6 mm, ZMUC CRU-6388; many specimens, ZMUC CRU-6389, from Thor Stn 78. 8 specimens from Thor stn 99, 7 females (all with oostegites?) 5–6 mm, 1 adult male, about 8 mm, ZMUC CRU-6390. Type locality. South-west of the Faeroe Islands north-east Atlantic Ocean at 835 m depth (61°07'N 9°30'W), and 900 m depth (61°05'N 9°35'W). Depth range. 835–900 m (Stephensen 1923). Remarks. This species appears to have only been collected once, at two separate stations, with a limited distribution near the Faeroe Islands (Stephensen 1923). It is extremely distinctive with a parachelate gnathopod 1 and vestigial gnathopod 1 coxa. In the original description of the species Stephensen (1923) specified that his description and illustrations were based on a 6 mm ovigerous female and an 8 mm adult male from the syntypes series. : 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 pages 509-511, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4909684 : {"references": ["Stephensen, K. (1923) Crustacea Malacostraca, V: (Amphipoda, I). Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 3, 1 - 100.", "Barnard, J. L. (1958) Index to the families, genera, and species of the gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea). Allan Hancock Foundation Publications, Occasional Paper, 19, 1 - 145.", "Lincoln, R. J. (1979) British Marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. i - v, 1 - 658.", "Palerud, R. & Vader, W. (1991) Marine Amphipoda Gammaridea in north-east Atlantic and Norwegian Arctic. Tromura, Naturvitenskap, 68, 1 - 97.", "Barnard, J. L. & Karaman, G. S. (1991) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, 13, 1 - 866. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0812 - 7387.13.1991.367", "Sainte-Marie, B. (1991) A review of the reprodictive bionomics of aquatic gammaridean amphipods: variation of life history traits with latitude, depth, salinity and superfamily. Hydrobiologia, 223, 189 - 227. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / bf 00047641"]}