New and additional records of hyperiidean amphipods of the infraorder Physosomata (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) from the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean
Author
Zeidler, Wolfgang
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-03
4576
3
510
520
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4576.3.5
a3ed9fb7-68a3-4a4e-9d3b-8375bedd234f
1175-5326
3715770
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Lanceola loveni grossipes
Shoemaker, 1945
Southwest Atlantic: 301868
, 6/348, [
54°40’S
58°58’W
],
644 m
.
Remarks
:
This is a relatively rare sub-species of
L. loveni
, previously known only from the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, mainly from tropical waters. The
type
material came from depths of about
1000–2000 m
but specimens have also been recorded from depths of
150–250 m
(Zeidler 2009). This is the first record from the Southern Hemisphere and the Southern Ocean, from great depth. Its occurrence there may because of the incursion of warm water as it is at the extreme southern range of the sub-Antarctic Zone.