Neopleustes columbianus Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004
- 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 columbianus
description
Figures 1 d, 2 d, k, r, z, 3 c, 4 d, 5 d, 22
discussion
Remarks. Perhaps this species includes individuals from the north-eastern coast of North America (Grand Manan Island, Fundy Bay), which were identified by Holmes (1904) as Paramphithoe pulchella (Krøyer, 1845). Exemplars from Fundy Bay are close in morphology to N. columbianus (especially in dorsal carination) (Holmes, 1904: pl. 8, fig. 1), but differ from the typical description of Krøyer (1845) and Sars (1895) (Fig. 18). However, the lack of own description in Holmes (1904) does not allow us to precisely state this.
distribution
Distribution: Known from Pacific coast of Northern America from South-Eastern Alaska to southern British Columbia in depth range of 7 – 71 m on mud (Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004).