Leptophoxoides molaris J.L. Barnard 1962

• Main Authors: Alonso, Gloria M., Pina, De, Rauschert, Martin, Broyer, Claude De
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Phoxocephalidae; Leptophoxoides; Leptophoxoides molaris; Antarc*; Antarctic; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235324; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4878A3538FF90FF2CFB8DFD66BDD8

Leptophoxoides molaris J.L. Barnard, 1962 Barnard J.L., 1962: 14, 51, fig. 40. Barnard and Drummond, 1978: 447. Barnard and Barnard, 1990: 75. Barnard and Karaman, 1991: 618. Gutt et al. , 2000: 80–83. Distribution: E + (Ba) Weddell Sea: “ Polarstern” ANT XIII/3 , eastern shelf, sta. 30 D 24, 70 °05’S 8°21’W, 2334 m (gear: Rauschert dredge) (JG et al. 00); North of Atka, sta. 30, 70 °05.30’S 8°20’W – 70º5.30’S 8º21.80’W, 2315–2334 m (MR unpubl.). Type-locality: “Vema” 14, off South Africa, Cape Basin, sta. 52, 41 °03’S 7°49’E, 4961 m (bottom trawl; gear: small beam trawl) (JLB 62). Depth range: 2315–2334 m. Ecology: From deep–sea, apparently sandy bottom. Extralimital distribution: “Vema” 14, off South Africa, Cape Basin, sta. 52, 41 °03’S 7°49’E, 4961 m (bottom trawl; gear: small beam trawl) (JLB 62). Extralimital depth range: 4961 m. Type material location: LGOC, New York. Remarks: This is the unique species in the genus Leptophoxoides J.L. Barnard, 1962, described from the Cape Basin, off South Africa. It is characterized by a deflexed rostrum, a well developed molar, maxilla 1 with inner plate as large as outer and maxilliped with article 3 produced apically. Gutt et al. (2000) found this deep bathyal/abyssal taxon in the Weddell Sea and recently, Rauschert (unpubl.) extended its distribution in the same area. 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 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181746