Cheloscina antennula Shih & Hendrycks 1996

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Mimonectidae; Cheloscina; Cheloscina antennula; Antarc*; Antarctic; Drake Passage; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3717743; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DCD821FFFDFFF2FF3CB7D6FABCA9AF

Cheloscina antennula Shih & Hendrycks, 1996 Southwest Atlantic: ex. 1013405 , 5/397, [59°41’S 56°06’W], 2269 m. Remarks : This is a very small species (about 3 mm or less), previously known only from the unique type, from the North Pacific, off the Alaskan Peninsular (53°20’N 155°16’W), from a depth of 700– 900 m. It is most likely a deep-water species preferring colder waters. The specimen recorded here seems to be this species and is thus recorded as a new record for the Antarctic Zone of the Southwest Atlantic Sector. Another two small specimens, referable to Cheloscina , were also found in the Antarctic Zone, just west of the Drake Passage by the Eltanin . Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2019, New and additional records of hyperiidean amphipods of the infraorder Physosomata (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) from the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean, pp. 510-520 in Zootaxa 4576 (3) on page 515, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4576.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3715770