Schisturella pulchra (Hansen 1888)
- Dataset
- The Tryphosa group (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Lysianassidae
- genus
- Pseudonesimus
- species
- Schisturella pulchra
description
(Fig. 10)
discussion
Remarks. Hansen (1888) based his description of the species on an adult female (15 mm) from the syntypes series.
distribution
Distribution. Arctic. Coasts of Greenland (Hansen 1888, Schellenberg 1935, Stephensen 1944); Kara Sea (Gurjanova 1935); Northern Norway and Svalbard (Vader & Johnsen 2001). North Atlantic Ocean. Northwest of Shetland (Norman 1906); Gulf of St Lawrence (Shoemaker 1930). North Pacific Ocean. Sea of Okhotsk (Gurjanova 1962);? Enshu-nada and Kumano-nada, Japan (Sekiguchi & Yamaguchi 1983).
materials_examined
Additional material examined. 3 males, AM P. 35526, from Baie des Isle, Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada (49 º 10 ’ N 58 º 15 ’ W), 19 August 1965. Type locality. Greenland: Sukkertoppen, 100 fathoms [182 m]; Christianshaab 15 – 30 fathoms (27.5 – 55 m); and Egedesminde, 80 – 100 fathoms [146 – 182 m]. Habitat. Marine, hard (stony) to soft (clay) bottoms. Depth range. 27 – 2240 m (Hansen 1888, Gurjanova 1962).