Lepechinella skarphedini SKARPHEDINI THURSTON 1980

• Main Authors: Lörz, Anne-Nina, Brix, Saskia, Jażdżewska, Anna M., Hughes, Lauren Elizabeth
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Dexaminidae; Lepechinella; Lepechinella skarphedini; Irminger Basin; Thurston; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4725791; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4725791

LEPECHINELLA SKARPHEDINI THURSTON, 1980 Lepechinella skarphedini Thurston, 1980: 78–81, figs 7–9. — Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 269. Type locality: North Atlantic, Iceland Basin, 60°7.5’N, 19°32.4’W, 2646 m (Discovery station 7709#72). Material examined: DZMB-HH 52661, one specimen; ZMH-K 56639, one specimen, IceAGE, ME 85-3, station 1054, Irminger Basin, south Iceland, North Atlantic (61°36.19’N, 031°22.60’W to 61°36.97’N, 031°22.18’W), 2537.3 m, 7 September 2011. Remarks: The two specimens collected here provide additional records of L. skarphedini, extending the known distribution further north from the Iceland Basin to the Irminger Basin. Depth range: 2450 to 2537 m. Distribution: Irminger Basin (present study) and Iceland Basin (Thurston, 1980) (Fig. 9A; Tables 1, 2). Published as part of Lörz, Anne-Nina, Brix, Saskia, Jażdżewska, Anna M. & Hughes, Lauren Elizabeth, 2020, Diversity and distribution of North Atlantic Lepechinellidae (Amphipoda: Crustacea), pp. 1095-1122 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 on page 1110, DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa024, http://zenodo.org/record/5722220