Dautzenbergia megacheir (Walker 1897)
- Dataset
- A new amphipod species of the bathyal genus Dautzenbergia Chevreux, 1900 (Amphipoda, Calliopioidea, Pontogeneiidae) associated with cold-water corals off Angola
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Pontogeneiidae
- genus
- Dautzenbergia
- species
- Dautzenbergia megacheir
distribution
Distribution: North Atlantic: Ireland, 1372 m (Walker 1897), Canary Islands, 1200 m (Chevreux 1927), Greenland, 2448 m (Stephensen 1944); Mediterranean Sea: 650 m (Diviacco 1982),> 1000 m (Cartes et al. 2022). Found on a finely ramose gorgonid (see Stephensen 1944, p. 5) and the bamboo coral, Isidella elongata (see Cartes et al. 2022).