A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
Author
Zeidler, Wolfgang
text
Zootaxa
2004
2004-07-14
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Phronima sedentaria
(Forsskål)
Cancer sedentarius
Forsskål, 1775: 95–96
.
Gammarus sedentarius
—
Schousboe, 1802: 11
, figs 1–6.
Phronima sedentaria
—
Latreille, 1803: 291
.
Phronima custos
Risso, 1816: 121
, pl. 2, fig. 3.
Phronima borneensis
Bate, 1862: 318
, pl. 51, fig. 3.
Phronima novaezealandiae
Powell, 1875: 294
, pl. 21, figs 1 & 2.
Phronima neozelanica
Thomson & Chilton, 1886: 150
.
Phronima spinosa
Bovallius, 1887: 25
.
Phronima tenella
Stebbing, 1888: 1354–1356
, pl. 161A.
Phronima affinis
Vosseler, 1901: 20
, pl. 1, figs 12–16.
Type material
The
holotype
of
Cancer sedentarius
is in the
ZMUC
(
Forsskål
coll.): in spirit
.
Type material of synonyms
Type material of
P.custos
seems to be lost, although the
ANSP
has a female specimen embedded in a dried salp (
CA 2689
) from the GuérinMéneville collection (No. 443) which may represent
type
material (see
Zeidler 1997
)
.
Type material of
P. borneensis
could not be found at the
BMNH
or
MNHN
and is considered lost.
Type material of
P. novaezealandiae
could not be found in any museum in
New Zealand
, or at the
BMNH
and is considered lost.
Type material of
P. spinosa
could not be found at the
SMNH
,
ZMUC
or in
Uppsala
and is considered lost.
The
holotype
of
P. tenella
is in the
BMNH
(89.5.15.205): mounted whole on a microscope slide
.
The
holotype
of
P. affinis
is in the
Zoological Museum
,
Kiel University
,
Germany
(Cr. 0318)
.
Remarks
This is the only species of
Phronima
in which the second antennae of the males are reduced. Females of this species can be confused with
P. atlantica
, especially when dealing with juveniles, but the pleonites of
P. sedentaria
possess a posterodistal spinose process which is absent in
P. atlantica
. It is also similar to
P. solitaria
, but males of that species have welldeveloped second antennae, and in females the carpus of pereopod 5 has a strong medial tooth adjacent to the anterior tooth.