Neopleustes boecki (Hansen 1887)
- Dataset
- Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Crustacea Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Subfamily Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Pleustidae
- genus
- Neopleustes
- species
- Neopleustes boecki
description
Figures 1 a, 2 a, 4 a, 5 a, 22
discussion
Remarks. Probably individuals from the lists of Margulis (1963) and Dzhurinskyi (2013) belong to the new subspecies Neopleustes boecki pacifica ssp. nov. (see below).
distribution
Distribution: Known from the Arctic Ocean, from the coast of Norway, Greenland and the East Siberian Sea from a depth of 9 – 113 m (Gurjanova 1951; Hansen 1887; Sars 1895; Stebbing 1906). Recorded from the coastal waters and shelf of Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk in depth range of 9 – 55 m on pebbles, sand and shells (Dzhurinskyi 2013; Margulis 1963).
Name
- Synonyms
- Paramphithoe boeckii Hansen 1887
- Homonyms
- Neopleustes boecki (Hansen 1887)