Chuneola paradoxa Woltereck 1909

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Chuneolidae; Chuneola; Chuneola paradoxa; Bering Sea; Macquarie Island; Southern Ocean; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5328130; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C89422FF80DD7C34C7FE5EFF41FE62

Chuneola paradoxa Woltereck (Figs 29 & 30) Chuneola paradoxa Woltereck, 1909: 152, pl. 3, fig. 9. Pirlot 1930: 3–7, figs 1–5. Bulycheva 1955: 1048 (table). Vinogradov 1957: 201 (key); 1960b: 249 (map); 1970: 384 (table). Vinogradov et al . 1982: 92–94, figs 31, 32. Vinogradov 1992: 325. De Broyer & Jazdzewski 1993: 109. Gates et al . 2003: 304. Chuneola parasitica Vinogradov, 1956: 196–199, fig 1; 1957: 201; 1960a: 211–212; 1960b: 249 (map); 1962: 11, fig. 6; 1970: 384 (table). Yoo 1971: 44. Type material. The unique type of C. paradoxa could not be found in any major European museum and is considered lost. The type locality is the Indian Ocean [06°38.5’S 70°58.1’E]; Valdivia Stn. 225. Type material of synonyms. The unique type of C. parasitica , a juvenile measuring 8.5 mm, is in the collection of the ZMMU (Mb–1055), on microscope slides. The locality is the West Bering Sea [55°18’N 172°04’E], 3700–0 m. Vinogradov et al . (1982) synonymised it with C. paradoxa after a considered examination of additional material. Material examined. North-East Pacific : Female (SAMA C6272); Alaska Gyre, S. of Alaska Pen. [50°0.5’N 165°0.2’W]; ex. M. Galbraith, 150 m, Sep. 1999. South-East Pacific : Female (USNM); off tip of S. America [55°22’– 55°24’S 78°08’– 78°24’W]; Eltanin Stn. 877, IKMWT 1940 m, 29 Nov. 1963. East Indian : Female (ZMUC), near Andaman Islands [09°02’N 93°07’E]; Galathea Stn. 318, 2800 mw, 5 May 1951. Southern Ocean : Female (SAMA C6271); W. of Macquarie Island [54°47.3’– 54°53’S 157°48.8’– 157°58.8’E]; FRV Southern Surveyor Stns 501/71, 1122– 4 m, 24 Jan. 1999. Diagnosis. Body length of about 30 mm. Pereon arched, flattened dorsoventrally, without keels or spines. Head with broad, rounded rostrum overlapping antennae (less developed in juveniles). Eyes very small. Antennae 1 stout, about as long as half of head. Antennae 2 with oval-shaped vesicular peduncular article, slightly longer than wide, almost as long as A1; terminal article almost twice as long as wide. Gnathopod 1 similar to G2 but ...