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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Mimonecteola macronyx
K.H. Barnard, 1932
Southwest Pacific: 1013496
, 27/1966, [
59.658°S
155.35°E
],
1446–1786 m
.
Remarks
:
The validity of this species was confirmed relatively recently by Zeidler (2009). It has been recorded mainly from the tropical regions of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The previously most southerly record is from the south-west Pacific (
25°47’S
172°24’E
) (Zeidler 2009). Thus, the above is a new record for the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Zone of the Southwest Pacific Sector. Its occurrence there may be because of the incursion of warm water as it is at the extreme southern range of the sub-Antarctic Zone.