Bathyporeia Lindstrom 1855

• Main Author: D'Acoz, Cedric D'Udekem
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Pontoporeiidae; Bathyporeia; Svalbard; Pacific; Norway; Spence; Sandy Beach; Rodriguez; Cornejo; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6194924; https://zenodo.org/record/6194924

Bathyporeia Lindström, 1855 (Figs 1 – 4) Bathyporeia Lindström, 1855: 37 – 59. — d'Udekem d'Acoz, 2007: 64 (ubi syn.) Antenna 2 : article 5 of peduncle distinctly shorter article 4 flagellum with posterior setae not more developed than anterior setae flagellum increasing in size at maturity in males of most species. Mandible : incisor process with 2 or 3 erect spines lacinia mobilis blade-shaped and elongate; palp with article 3 with D 3 -setae in mature males only , with F 3 -setae (isolated or forming groups); with article 2 slender (rarely slightly broadened), without B 2 -setae. Maxilla 1 : article 2 of palp with scattered setae and without row of spines . Maxilliped : article 2 of palp with strong posterodistal lobe article 3 of palp elongate and curved . Coxa 1 anteriorly directed , with anterior border strongly concave . Gnathopod 1 subchelate, reduced in size . Gnathopod 2 highly tranformed , neither chelate nor subchelate, with dactylus vestigial, with propodus elongate with very long setae on posterior border. Pereiopod 5 with dactylus vestigial . Pereiopod 7 with basis posteriorly not broadly rounded and distally not produced; ischium pentagona l. Urosomite 1 with two dorsal bumps; posterior bump with pair of anteriorly directed setae, with or without posteriorly directed spines . Uropod 3 with inner ramus very short and broadly elliptic , less than 0.2 times as long as outer ramus; outer ramus with variable number of groups of spines on lateral border; article 2 with or without setae on lateral border. Telson with only one group of lateral spines or setae (except for rare teratological specimens, which have two groups). Type species. Bathyporeia pilosa Lindström, 1855. See Lindström (1855: 59, pl. 2 fig. 1–11). Composition. B. borgi d'Udekem d'Acoz & Vader, 2005; B. chevreuxi d'Udekem d'Acoz & Vader, 2005; B. cunctator d'Udekem d'Acoz & Vader, 2005; B. elegans Watkin, 1938; B. elkaimi d'Udekem d'Acoz & Menioui, 2004; B. griffithsi d'Udekem d'Acoz & Vader, 2005; B. gladiura d'Udekem d'Acoz & Vader, 2005; B. guilliamsoniana (Spence Bate, 1857); B. gracilis G. O. Sars, 1891; B. ledoyeri d'Udekem d'Acoz & Menioui, 2004; B. lindstromi Stebbing, 1906; B. microceras d'Udekem d'Acoz & Menioui, 2004; B. nana Toulmond, 1966; B. parkeri Bousfield, 1973; B. pelagica Spence Bate, 1857; B. phaiophthalma Bellan-Santini, 1973; B. pilosa Lindström, 1855; B. quoddyensis Shoemaker, 1949; B. sarsi Watkin, 1938; B. tenuipes Meinert, 1877; B. watkini d'Udekem d'Acoz, Echchaoui & Menioui, 2006. Distribution and biology. Eastern Atlantic (from Northern Norway to South Africa), Mediterranean and Black Sea, Northwestern Atlantic; sandy bottoms; intertidal to 106 m. An enigmatic record of Bathyporeia sp. from the equatorial Eastern Pacific (Aerts et al. 2004) needs confirmation. : Published as part of D'Acoz, Cedric D'Udekem, 2011, Validation of the family Bathyporeiidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda), pp. 54-62 in Zootaxa 2791 on pages 60-61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205162 : {"references": ["Lindstrom, G. (1855) Bidrag till kannedomen om Ostersjons invertebrat-fauna. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, Stockholm, 12 (2), 49 - 73, pl. 2.", "Udekem d'Acoz, C. d' (2007) Systematic, phylogenetic and biological considerations on the genera Bathyporeia, Amphiporeia, Pontoporeia and Priscillina, with description of a new Priscillina from Svalbard (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie / Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Biologie, 76 [for 2006], 33 - 110.", "Bousfield, E. L. (1973) Shallow-water Gammaridean Amphipoda of New England. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, xii pp., 312 pp.", "Aerts, K., Vanagt, T., Degraer, S., Guartatanga, S., Wittoeck, J., Fockedey, N., Cornejo-Rodriguez, M. P., Calderon, J. & Vincx, M. (2004) Macrofaunal community structure and zonation of an Ecuadorian sandy beach (bay of Valdivia). Belgian Journal of Zoology 134 (1), 15 - 22."]}