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 Lepechinell...

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Main Authors: Johansen, Per-Otto, Vader, Wim
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
ddc:590
Arctic
Greenland
North Atlantic
North East Atlantic
Spitsbergen
Online Access:http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45936
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-459365
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-459365
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/45936/127_johansen_vader_2015_lepechinella.pdf
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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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