Primno abyssalis Bowman

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Phrosinidae; Primno; Primno abyssalis; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5517892; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03931615EC66FFE7FEDFFC14FDB8F985

Primno abyssalis Bowman Primno abyssalis Bowman, in Fulton, 1968:104,109. Type material The holotype female is in the USNM (Cat. no. 213613), and two female paratypes are in the collections of Scripps Institution of Oceanography: in spirit. Remarks This is the largest species of Primno , with adults reaching 21 mm in length. Bowman (1985) suggests that this species is derived from P. macropa , or its progenitor, which was originally limited to the southern hemisphere, but during the ice age ranged into the North Pacific. When the oceans warmed again the continuity was broken, leaving the North Pacific population isolated. Its distribution is now restricted to the subarctic province of the North Pacific Ocean. Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 567 on page 23, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.567.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5259734