Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976 *
Author
Bird, Graham J.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1599
61
85
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178698
4752b142-888a-44bf-b0a3-210a24ff581a
1175-5326
178698
Biarticulata tuberculata
(
Hansen, 1913
)
Leptognathia tuberculata
Hansen, 1913
: 82
–83, plate VIII figs 3a–f.
Kudinova-Pasternak, 1966
: 532
[uncertain synonymy].
Kudinova-Pasternak, 1970
: 353
[uncertain synonymy].
Biarticulata tuberculata
(
Hansen, 1913
)
:
Larsen & Shimomura, 2007
: 19
.
Remarks.
This somewhat enigmatic species, originally described by Hansen (
op.cit.
) from material collected in the Davis Strait at depths of
2194–2625
metres has also been reported from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench at 4895 metres by
Kudinova-Pasternak (1970)
and the central North Pacific, 6051 metres (
Kudinova-Pasternak 1966
). It is very doubtfully placed in the
Leptognathiidae
as it is clearly either a species of
Akanthophoreus
or
Chauliopleona
, although it escaped the revision of both genera (the former as
Paraleptognathia
Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981
) by
Guerrero-Kommritz (2004
,
2005
). It is a very slender species, one
syntype
from Ingolf Station 36 having a carapace 1.8 times as long as broad and with pereonites 2–5 all longer than broad.
For additional comments on this species and Kudinova-Pasternak’s record see Bird, elsewhere in this publication.