Gnathophausia zoea Willemoes-Suhm 1873

• Main Author: Vicente, Carlos San
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Lophogastrida; Lophogastridae; Gnathophausia; Gnathophausia zoea; Southern Ocean; Tristan; Wittmann; Garrido; Anadon
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6074684; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6074684

Gnathophausia zoea Willemoës-Suhm, 1873 Distribution. Known from all the oceans of the world: NE-Atlantic, Bay of Biscay, Mauritania, Tristan da Cunha, Gulf of Mexico, W-America (Lower California), Zanzibar, South Africa, Ascension Is., Philippines, Indonesia, China Sea, Hawaii, Southern Ocean. Depth range. 400–6050 m. Habitat. Meso- to abysso-pelagic. Iberian Seas published records. SE Bay of Biscay continental slope (Lagardère 1977, 1983, 1985, Lagardère & Nouvel 1980, Petryashov 2014). Southern margin of the Cap-Ferret trench (Elizalde et al. 1991, 1993, Elizalde 1994, Sorbe & Weber 1995). Cap Breton canyon (Milne-Edwards 1880, Norman 1880, Aguirrezabalga et al. 1988, Sorbe 1990, Urzelai et al. 1990, San Vicente 2010a, Frutos & Sorbe 2014). Off the Asturian Central Coast (Caullery 1896, Anadon 1993). Le Danois Bank (Sánchez et al. 2008, Preciado et al. 2009). Off Calician and Asturian coasts (Lagardère 1983). Off Finisterre (Nouvel 1943). Azores /Biscay rise close to the margin of the Iberian-Abyssal Plain (42ºN, 17ºW: Hargreaves 1985). Off Portugal (Nouvel 1943, De Jong & Casanova 1997a, Wittmann & Riera 2012). Off Canary Archipelago (Haroun & Garrido 2003, Wittmann et al. 2004, Hernández et al. 2008, Arrasate-López et al. 2012, Wittmann & Riera 2012). Azores (Sars 1885, Fage 1941, Nouvel 1943, Tattersall & Tattersall 1951, Mees & Aas 2013). Remarks. The presence of this species in the Mediterranean Sea reported by Alcaraz (1986) and San Vicente (2010b) should be considered as an erroneous reference (Alcaraz, com. pers.). Published as part of Vicente, Carlos San, 2016, An annotated check-list of lophogastrids (Crustacea: Lophogastrida) from the seas of the Iberian Peninsula, pp. 481-502 in Zootaxa 4178 (4) on pages 485-486, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/261351