A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Lanceoloidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
Author
Zeidler, Wolfgang
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-02-04
2000
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117
journal article
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Scypholanceola agassizi
Woltereck
Scypholanceola agassizi
Woltereck, 1909: 161
, 167, pl. 7, figs 21, 22; pl. 8, figs 29, 31.
Woltereck 1927: 65–68
, fig. 7.
Vinogradov 1957: 197
;
1960a: 208–209
, fig. 5b; 1964: 117; 1970: 384 (table).
Vinogradov
et al
. 1982: 81
, figs 22b, 24b.
Type
material.
Type
material of this species could not be found in any major
European
museum, or the USNM, and is considered lost.
Woltereck (1909)
introduces this species as part of a discussion on the eye structure of
Scypholanceola
without any specific description.
He
mentions that the largest specimen is
17 mm
long and, in his key to species, refers to a male from the
Pacific
,
Albatross
Stn. 4673, which is presumably that figured.
Albatross
Stn. 4673 is south-west of
Peru
[
12º30’30”S
77º49’30”W
]
;
21 Nov. 1904
.
Diagnosis.
Like
S. aestiva
except for the following. Body length up to
36 mm
; sexually mature specimens not described. Head without rostrum. Eyes of freshly caught specimens have bottom of cups with dull metallic sheen. Antennae 1 with terminal article elongate-conical, narrowing distally.
Remarks.
I have been unable to distinguish this species from amongst the material that I have examined but accept its validity based on the observations of
Vinogradov
et al
. (1982)
, although they state that “only the large, undamaged specimens could be considered reliably identified”.
Distribution.
According to
Vinogradov
et al
(1982)
. In the Pacific Ocean it is found from the Kuril-
Kamchatka region
south to
23º30’S
. In the Indian Ocean it is known from the tropical regions south to 20ºS. It has not been recorded from the Atlantic Ocean. It seems to inhabit deeper waters than
S. aestiva
not having been collected above
1000 m
with the deepest record from the
5000–6000 m
layer.