Kerguelenia Stebbing 1888

• Main Authors: Lowry, J. K., Stoddart, H. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Kergueleniidae; Kerguelenia; Lowry; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5308680; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5308680

Kerguelenia Stebbing, 1888 Kerguelenia Stebbing, 1888: 1219. — Sars, 1891: 119. — Della Valle, 1893: 786. — Stebbing, 1906: 11. — Stephensen, 1929: 51. —J.L. Barnard, 1969: 346. — Ledoyer, 1986: 770. — Diviacco & Ruffo, 1989: 488. — Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 493. — Lowry & Stoddart, 1994: 163. Diagnosis. Mandible without incisor. Remarks. We see no reason to maintain the subspecies status of K. borealis japonica and K. borealis ochotica established by Gurjanova (1962) and here raise them to full species. Kerguelenia now contains 20 species: Kerguelenia adeliensis Bellan-Santini, 1972; K. antarctica K.H. Barnard, 1930; K. antiborealis Bellan-Santini & Ledoyer, 1987; K. borealis Sars, 1891; K. compacta Stebbing, 1888; K. eoa Gurjanova, 1962; K. euroka sp. nov.; K. glacialis Schellenberg, 1926; K. japonica Gurjanova, 1962; K. kanowna sp. nov.; K. kawatiri sp. nov.; K. koutoumo Lowry & Stoddart, 1994; K. leura sp. nov.; K. lifou Lowry & Stoddart, 1994; K. macropoda Ledoyer, 1986; K. matilda sp. nov.; K. microphthalma Ledoyer, 1986; K. ochotica Gurjanova, 1962; K. palpalis K.H. Barnard, 1932; K. reducta Ledoyer, 1977. Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2010, Kergueleniidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 2564 (1) on page 14, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.2329.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5301357