Pseudocrangonyx susunaensis Labay 1999

• Main Authors: Sídorov, Dmitry, Labay, Vjacheslav, Gontcharov, Andrey
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• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Pseudocrangonyctidae; Pseudocrangonyx; Pseudocrangonyx susunaensis; Sakhalinskaya; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5030569; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5030569

Pseudocrangonyx susunaensis Labay 1999, p. 64, fig. 6b. – Labay 2001, p. 292, figs 5–7. Distribution and ecology Previously recorded in springs on the Susunajskij Khrebet near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (1999, 2001). New record RUSSIA: specimen 11/12-DAS: probably ♀ ca. 4.0 mm (oostegites undeveloped), Sakhalin, Sakhalinskaya Oblast, Korsakovsky District, basin of Tunaicha Lake, upper part of Udarnitsa river, in stomach of salmon, 46.725742, 143.422394, elevation 46 m, leg. S.E. Frenkel, 4 June 2004. Remarks The single specimen of an unspecified gender was found in the stomach contents of a young masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) caught on 4 June 2004, at the source of the Udarnitsa River in the extreme southeast of Sakhalin, and showed a weak affinity with P. susunaensis, but appears to be mostly immature and broken. Published as part of Sídorov, Dmitry, Labay, Vjacheslav & Gontcharov, Andrey, 2020, New species and records of the subterranean amphipod genus Pseudocrangonyx Akatsuka and Komai (Crustacea: Pseudocrangonyctidae), representing the northernmost distribution of the group, pp. 1759-1795 in Journal of Natural History 54 (27 - 28) on pages 1788-1789, DOI:10.1080/00222933.2020.1820092, http://zenodo.org/record/5030637