Amphipod crustaceans (Corophiidea and Gammaridea) associated with holdfasts of Macrocystis pyrifera from the Beagle Channel (Argentina) and additional records from the Southwestern Atlantic
Author
Alonso, G. M.
text
Journal of Natural History
2012
2012-08-31
46
29 - 30
1799
1894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.692825
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2012.692825
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Pariphimedia normani
(
Cunningham, 1871
)
Iphimedia normani
Cunningham, 1871: 498
, pl. 59, fig. 7.
Pariphimedia normani
: Coleman and J.L.
Barnard, 1991: 534–539
, figs. 6–10;
Chiesa et al., 2005: 169
, 170, tb. 2;
De Broyer et al., 2007: 106
, 107.
Material examined
Argentina
; Beagle Channel, northern
Isla
Despard
,
54
◦
52
′
S
,
68
◦
10
′
W
,
8–12 m
depth
, colls.
D. Aureliano
and A.
Ferlito
, don.
G. Lovrich
,
27 May 1999
:
1 ♀
8.5 mm
, MACN- In 38598a;
1 ♀
9.8 mm
, MACN-In 38598b; 1 ovig.
♀
11.25 mm
,
1 November 1999
, MACN-In 38599;
1 ♂
4 mm
,
10 February 2000
,
MACN-In 38600.
Same
location, same colls.,
2 May 2000
:
1 ♀
6 mm
,
2 ♂♂
6 and
7 mm
, MACN-In 38601a; 1 ovig.
♀
10.5 mm
,
1 ♀
9 mm
, MACN-In 38601b. Same location, same colls.,
29 May 2000
: 1 ovig.
♀
10.6 mm
,
4 ♀♀
6–10.5 mm
, 1 sex indet.
3.6 mm
,
8 ♂♂
5.6–7.4 mm
, MACN-In 38602a;
1 ♀
7 mm
,
1 ♂
5.7 mm
, MACN-In 38602b;
2 ♀♀
7.3 and
8 mm
, MACN-In 38602c.
Remarks
Pariphimedia normani
(
Cunningham, 1871
)
has been reported from West
Antarctica
and the Magellanic area. The present discovery widens its distribution in the Beagle Channel.