Scina borealis (Sars 1882)
- Dataset
- New and additional records of hyperiidean amphipods of the infraorder Physosomata (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) from the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Scinidae
- genus
- Scina
- species
- Scina borealis
discussion
Remarks: This species is relatively common in the cold-water, temperate and even tropical regions of all the world’s oceans, including the Mediterranean Sea. In Antarctic waters it is found right up to the Antarctic Continent. It occurs in a wide range of depths but is more common in the 200 – 1000 m layer (Vinogradov et al. 1982 / 96). The above records provide range extensions for the Antarctic Zone of the Southwest Atlantic, Eastern Indian Ocean and Pacific Sectors. As for the previous species, I could not find any previous records for the Southeast Pacific Sector, thus they are new records for that region, confirming the circumpolar distribution of this species.
Name
- Homonyms
- Scina borealis (Sars 1882)