Stephonyx biscayensis

• Main Authors: Lowry, J. K., Kilgallen, N. M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Uristidae; Stephonyx; Stephonyx biscayensis; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6646947; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE8B60AC47FF9A6CC1FB1EFBF0C2E4

Stephonyx biscayensis (Chevreux, 1908) Euonyx biscayensis Chevreux, 1908: 1, fig. 1.—K.H. Barnard, 1916: 110.— Stephensen, 1923: 42.— Schellenberg, 1926a: 200.— Chevreux, 1927: 47.— Pirlot, 1933: 120 (key).— Chevreux, 1935: 7, pl. 5 fig. 2.—? K.H. Barnard, 1940: 514 (list).—J.L. Barnard, 1958: 91.— Belloc, 1960: 6.—? J.L. Barnard, 1961: 34, fig. 4.—? Griffiths, 1975: 144.—? Griffiths, 1976: 58, 100, fig. 32G.— Desbruyères et al. , 1985: 236, 237.—? Ledoyer, 1986: 748, fig. 289.— Andres, 1987: 96 (table 2).— Costello et al. , 1989: 32.— Barnard & Ingram, 1990: 2 (list), 3 (key).— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 485.— Holmes et al. , 1997: 186 (list).— Dauvin & Bellan-Santini, 2002: 315 (table 1). Stephonyx biscayensis .— Lowry & Stoddart, 1989: 522, figs 2, 3.— Palerud & Vader, 1991: 43.— Poupin, 1994: 16.— Lowry & Stoddart, 1997: 129, fig. 63.— Escobar-Briones & Winfield, 2003: 42.— Ortiz et al. , 2007: 516.— Diffenthal & Horton, 2007: 40 (key).— Senna & Serejo, 2007: 13 (key).— Brown & Thatje, 2011: 1, figs 1–3.—Narahara, et al. , 2012; 1486, 1506 (key), figs 7–11.— Corrigan et al. , 2013: 10, fig. 5. Stephonyx sp. Paulmier, 1993: 29, pl. 34 fig. 1. Types. Syntypes, 10 specimens MOM. Female originally illustrated and described is lost (Ed Hendrycks pers. comm.). Type locality. Gulf of Gascony, Bay of Biscay, Northeast Atlantic Ocean (45°02'N 3°6'W), 1455 m depth. Habitat. Marine. Depth range. 494–1510 m (Lowry & Stoddart 1997; J.L. Barnard 1961). Feeding strategies. Scavenger (taken in baited traps). Remarks. Based on the key of Narahara et al . (2012) the records of J.L. Barnard (1961) and Ledoyer (1986) from the western Indian Ocean would key to S. biscayensis except for the posteroventral corner of epimeron 2 which has no spine. In addition the the cephalic lobe of S. biscayensis illustrated by both authors is rounded (triangular and apically subacute in the redescription of S. biscayensis of Lowry & Stoddart (1989), based on material from off Ireland). In fact ...