Themisto Guerin 1825

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
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• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Hyperiidae; Themisto; Arctic; Antarctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Pacific; New Zealand; Argentino; Kane; Percy; Corey; Colombo; Bogan; Antarc*; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic; Themisto abyssorum; Themisto libellula; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5030016; https://zenodo.org/record/5030016

Genus Themisto Guérin 1825 Remarks This genus has provided much taxonomic confusion in the past. Its status has been in question being known alternately as Euthemisto or Parathemisto , sometimes with subgenera. Bowman et al . (1982) restored the genus Themisto , which up until that time was considered a junior homonym of the nudibranch Themisto Oken, 1815; a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes by the ICZN (1956). The uncertainty of the generic status combined with several ill­defined species, subspecies and varieties has made specific determination very difficult, despite the efforts of Bowman (1960), Sheader and Evans (1974) and Schneppenheim and Weigmann­Haass (1986). Vinogradov et al . (1982) recognise six species, but Schneppenheim and Weigmann­Haass (1986) demonstrated that northern hemisphere material, previously identified with T. gaudichaudii Guérin, 1825, is a separate species, T. compressa Goës, 1865. In view of the past confusion, and recent studies by Schneppenheim and Weigmann­Haass (1986), a new key to species is provided to assist future workers. The holotype of T. gaudichaudii was discovered recently in the Guérin­Méneville collection (No. 438), in the ANSP (Zeidler 1997). The correct citation for the original description of this species has been confused in the past with some authors citing Guérin, 1828 (eg. Schneppenheim & Weigmann­Haass 1986; Spamer & Bogan 1992, 1994). This has arisen because, although the genus and species was first described in 1825, Guérin (1828) more or less repeated his description in a separate memoir introducing them as new, and providing figures of the type. All species of Themisto are mainly free­swimming, and can occur in large numbers, particularly in colder waters where, like krill, they play a significant role as food for plankton­feeding predators. Although considered mainly free­living, species of Themisto are known to be associated with medusae and salps (Madin & Harbison 1977; Laval 1980), and specimens of T. australis have been collected from Salpa fusiformis from Tasmanian waters. Additional biological and ecological information is given by the following; Bary (1959), Kane (1963), Siegfried (1965), Gray (1967), Evans (1968), Semenova (1974), Sheader (1975, 1977, 1981, 1990), Sheader and Evans (1975), Williams and Robins (1981), Bowman et al . (1982), Hiroki (1988), Corey (1990), Semura et al . (1991), Percy (1993), Colombo and Vinas (1994), Koszteyn et al . (1995), Condon and Norman (1999) and Vinogradov (1999b). Themisto has a bi­polar distribution with species restricted to the colder waters of the Arctic and Antarctic regions and occasionally venturing into cool­temperature waters. Species : as in the following key. : 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 pages 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734 : {"references": ["Guerin, F. E. (1825) Encyclopedie Methodique Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes par M. Latreille. Tome 10. Paris.", "Oken, L. (1815) Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, 1: Fleischlose Thiere. Jena: August Schmid und Comp., 850 pp., 40 pls.", "Bowman, T. E. (1960) The pelagic amphipod genus Parathemisto (Hyperiidea: Hyperiidae) in the North Pacific and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 112, 343 - 392.", "Sheader, M. & Evans, F. 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