Metharpinia protuberantis Alonso

• 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; Metharpinia; Metharpinia protuberantis; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235332; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4878A3526FF8DFF2CF9A0FD11BB16

Metharpinia protuberantis Alonso de Pina, 2001 Alonso de Pina, 2001: 527–537, figs. 7–11. Distribution: M Magellan Area: Argentina, Golfo Nuevo, Península Valdés, Punta Pardelas, 42°37’S 64°16’W, 2–5 m, 2– 4 m (gear: small dredge during low tide); Colombo beach (near Punta Pardelas), 42°37’S 64°16’W, 2 m (gear: small dredge during mid-tide); Bahía Nueva, Golfito, 42°46’S 65°02’W, 8–10 m (gear: samples extracted with a cylinder of 20 cm diameter during low tide); Crucero San José I 1984 , Golfo San José, 42°20’S 64°20’W, 4 m (gear: Van Veen grab) (GMA 01); Golfo San José, off El Riacho, 42º25’20’’S 64º36’35’’W, low intertidal (bottom: mussel beds developed over a sandflat background) (coll. Orensanz 2005) (GMA unpubl.). Depth range: 2– 10 m. Type-locality: Magellan Area: Argentina, Golfo Nuevo, Península Valdés, Punta Pardelas, 42°37’S 64°16’W, 2–5 m (gear: small dredge during low tide) (GMA 01). Ecology: Collected from sandy substrata. Type material location: MACN, Buenos Aires. Remarks: See remarks under Metharpinia iado . Metharpinia protuberantis expands its distribution in Golfo San José (Alonso de Pina, unpubl.). 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 pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181746