Neopleustes kussakini

• Main Author: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Pleustidae; Neopleustes; Neopleustes kussakini; Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4775587; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4775587

Neopleustes kussakini (Budnikova, 1995) Figures 1g, 4g, 5f, 22 Parapleustes (?) kussakini Budnikova, 1995: 15–21, figs. 4–7.— Budnikova & Bezrukov 2003: 208. Neopleustes kussakini (Budnikova, 1995) — Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: 98–100, fig. 28.— Dzhurinskyi 2013: 135. Distribution: North-West Pacifica: Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea in depth range of 80–185 m on stones, pebbles, shell, various sands and silt (Budnikova 1995; Budnikova & Bezrukov 2003; Dzhurinskyi 2013). In our collections it is absent. Remarks. The distal process of palp segment 3 of maxilliped is present, but not conspicuous (Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: Tzvetkova, personal communication). Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2021, Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Crustacea Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Subfamily Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994, pp. 267-306 in Zootaxa 4974 (2) on page 296, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4775545