Thrombasia rotundata (K. H. Barnard 1925) Kilgallen & Lowry 2014
- Dataset
- The Tryphosa group (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Kilgallen, N. M., Lowry, J. K. (2014): The Tryphosa group (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae). Zootaxa 3768 (5): 501-545, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.5.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Lysianassidae
- genus
- Thrombasia
- species
- Thrombasia rotundata
description
Depth range. 1189 – 4050 m (K. H. Barnard 1926, J. L. Barnard 1962).
discussion
Remarks. This species is poorly known, however in the original description of the species K. H. Barnard (1926) specified “ side-plate 1 subtriangular, inferior angle sub-acute … first gnathopod, 6 th joint a little shorter than the 5 th ”. Furthermore, J. L. Barnard (1962) illustrated the gnathopod 1 coxa as being only slightly shorter than the coxa of gnathopod 2 (vestigial in Schisturella). This combination of characters indicate that this species is more properly placed in Thrombasia.
distribution
Distribution. South Atlantic Ocean. Cape Point, South Africa (K. H. Barnard 1926); Cape Basin (J. L. Barnard 1962).
materials_examined
Types. Syntypes, 12 specimens, SAM A 2813, SAM A 4545, SAM A 5910. Type locality. 36 miles east to north-east of Cape Point, South Africa, 650 – 800 fathoms [1189 – 1463 m].