Polycheles suhmi Bate 1878

• Main Author: Ahyong, Shane T.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Polychelidae; Polycheles; Polycheles suhmi; Southern Ocean; Pacific; New Zealand
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5030697; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5030697

Polycheles suhmi (Bate, 1878) Pentacheles suhmi Bate, 1878: 278 [type locality: Gulf of Penas, Chile, 47 ° 48 ’S, 74 ° 46 ’W]. Stereomastis suhmi. — Bate 1888: 154, figs. 13, 37– 38, pl. 15: figs. 3, 4. — Griffin & Stoddart 1995: 249, figs. 12–15. — Takeda in Amaoka et al. 1990: 358. Polycheles suhmi. — Galil 2000: 344 –346, fig. 25. — Ahyong & Brown 2002: 75, 77. Material examined. West Norfolk Ridge: AM P66165, 1 female (14.1 mm), 32 ° 36.30 ’S, 167 ° 47.44 ’E, 1008– 1029 m, TAN0308/ 111 #008, 29 May 2003; AM P66306, 1 male (15.4 mm), 35 ° 10.27 ’S, 169 ° 29.24 ’E, 867– 869 m, TAN0308/ 158 #011, 4 Jun 2003. Lord Howe Rise: NIWA 28058, 1 male (18.8 mm), 34 ° 12.18 ’S, 162 ° 41.18 ’E, 748–772 m, TAN0308/ 89 #005, 26 May 2003. Remarks. Carapace spination (5 –6, 2, 8) is within the reported range (Galil 2000). Distribution. Southern Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and Southern Ocean (South Africa, Chile, New Zealand, and Australia); 292–2195 m (Galil 2000). Published as part of Ahyong, Shane T., 2007, Decapod Crustacea collected by the NORFANZ Expedition: Galatheidae and Polychelidae, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 1593 on page 51, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.178624