New and little known species of Lepechinella (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lepechinellidae) and an allied new genus Lepesubchela from the North Atlantic

New species of Lepechinella , L. norvegica sp. nov. and L. victoriae sp. nov., from the North East Atlantic are described together with the new, closely related genus and species Lepesubchela christinae gen. et sp. nov. Lepechinella arctica Schellenberg, 1926 from north of Spitsbergen and Lepechinel...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:European Journal of Taxonomy
Main Authors: Per-Otto Johansen, Wim Vader
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Consortium of European Natural History Museums 2015
Subjects:
Crustacea
Amphipoda
Lepechinellidae
North Atlantic
Arctic
Zoology
QL1-991
Botany
QK1-989
Greenland
Atlantic Arctic
Atlantic-Arctic
North East Atlantic
Spitsbergen
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.127
https://doaj.org/article/bf057512668e48c98323beef38ccced7
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Summary:New species of Lepechinella , L. norvegica sp. nov. and L. victoriae sp. nov., from the North East Atlantic are described together with the new, closely related genus and species Lepesubchela christinae gen. et sp. nov. Lepechinella arctica Schellenberg, 1926 from north of Spitsbergen and Lepechinella schellenbergi Stephensen, 1944 from Greenland are redescribed. A key to the species of Atlantic and Arctic Lepechinella is provided. Descriptions of taxonomic characters from related species in the Atlantic and Arctic are discussed.

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