Heterophoxus pellusidus Ren 1991

• Main Authors: Alonso, Gloria M., Pina, De, Rauschert, Martin, Broyer, Claude De
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Phoxocephalidae; Heterophoxus; Heterophoxus pellusidus; Antarctic; The Antarctic; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Palmer Archipelago; Pina; Antarc*; ren
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6235317; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235317

Heterophoxus pellusidus Ren, 1991 Ren, 1991 in Ren and Huang, 1991: 189, 273 –274, 297, 313– 315, fig. 54. De Broyer and JaŻdŻewski, 1993: 83. Distribution: W (+Ba) Palmer Archipelago: 63 ° 30 ’S 62 ° 31 ’W, 180 m (bottom: sand) (R&H 91). South Shetland Islands: 62 °44.9’S 61 °02.6’W, 128 m (bottom: mud); King George Island: 62 °12.2’S 58 ° 55 ’W, 110 m (bottom: mud); 62 °10.8’S 58 ° 20 ’W, 520 m (bottom: mud), 860 m (bottom: sand) (R&H 91). Depth range: 110– 860 m. Type-locality: South Shetland Islands: 62 °44.9’S 61 °02.6’W, 128 m (bottom: mud) (R&H 91). Ecology: Collected from mudy and sandy bottoms. Type material location: IOQ, Qingdao. Remarks: This species, only reported by Ren and Huang (1991), is distinguished from the other known species of the genus by the following characters combined: shape of the epimeron 3 posteroventral angle which has a long and curved tooth, and the length of the posterior lobe of the basis on peraeopod 7 which reaches the distal margin of the merus. Published as part of Alonso, Gloria M., Pina, De, Rauschert, Martin & Broyer, Claude De, 2008, A catalogue of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) with taxonomic, distribution and ecological data, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 1752 on page 13, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.181746