Cyphocaris challengeri Stebbing 1888
- Dataset
- A review of the world Cyphocarididae with description of three new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Cyphocarididae
- genus
- Cyphocaris
- species
- Cyphocaris challengeri
distribution
Distribution. NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. Hawaiian Islands; Nanaimo, British Colombia, Canada; Kurile- Kamchatka Trench area; Japan Trench, off south-west Hokkaido, Japan; southern Gulf of Alaska; North Pacific Polar Frontal Zone (Stebbing 1888; Thorsteinson 1941; Birstein & Vinogradov 1955, 1958, 1970; Nagata 1963; Bowman 1967; Bowman & McCain 1967; Yoo 1970; Umezu 1984; Yamada & Ikeda 2000, 2001). SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN. Bougainville Trench, Solomon Sea; between Tonga Trench and Kermadec Trench; Nazca and Sala-y-Gomez Ridges (Schellenberg 1929; Birstein & Vinogradov 1960, Vinogradov 1990). NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. Between the Azores and Canary Islands; Canary Islands; west of Straits of Gibraltar; west of Cape Verde Islands; off Washington, Active Pass, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia; Bermuda (Chevreux 1905 b, 1935; Stephensen 1915; Schellenberg 1926 a, 1955; Pirlot 1929; Shoemaker 1945; Sanderson 1973; Sanger 1974; Thurston 1976; Vermeer et al. 1987; Vermeer & Devito 1988; Andres et al. 1992). SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. eastern South Atlantic Ocean; off western South Africa; off Gabon; Cape Basin (Schellenberg 1926 a, 1926 b; K. H. Barnard 1932; J. L. Barnard 1961, 1962). NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN. Southern Arabian Sea; north-west of Desroches Atoll; Straits of Moluccas, Strait of Manipa, Indonesia; off Rodrigues Island, Mascarene Islands, east of Cargados Islands, south-east of Seychelle Islands; east of Maldive Archipelago; east of Amirante Islands; Java ridge, south of Java; south of Sumatra; Error Mountain Seamount, Mozambique Channel, Walters Shoal, Saya de Malha Bank, Equator Mountain Seamount (Walker 1909; Schellenberg 1926 b; Pirlot 1933; K. H. Barnard 1937; Birstein & Vinogradov 1964; Vinogradov 2004). GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT. South Australian Basin (Birstein & Vinogradov 1962)
materials_examined
Type material. Holotype, 1 / 5 inch (5 mm), 4 slides, NHM 1889: 5: 15: 19, 400 miles north of Sandwich Islands; (probably = north of Hawaiian Islands, North Pacific Ocean, 30 ° 22 ’ 0 ” N 154 ° 56 ’ 0 ” W), 2950 fm (4023 m), red clay, dredge, 21 July 1875, Challenger (stn 256) (acc. to Thurston & Allen, 1969, see Bowman & McCain, 1967 who discuss the possibility that type locality being further north) Type locality. 400 miles north of Sandwich Islands; (probably = north of Hawaiian Islands, North Pacific Ocean, 30 ° 22 ’ 0 ” N 154 ° 56 ’ 0 ” W). Material examined. 6 specimens (2 immature, 4 ovigerous females), MNHN-IU- 2014 - 12001 (Paris, France), near Sainte-Suzanne, La Réunion, Indian Ocean (20 ° 50.3 ’ S 55 ° 36.2 ’ E), 480 – 675 m, pebbles, Sanders dredge, 3 September 1982, MS Marion Dufresne (MD 32 / REUNION stn DS 142). Depth range. 0 – 5987 m.
Name
- Homonyms
- Cyphocaris challengeri Stebbing 1888