Neopleustes euacanthus (G. Sars 1877)
- Dataset
- Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Crustacea Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Subfamily Neopleustinae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Pleustidae
- genus
- Neopleustes
- species
- Neopleustes euacanthus
description
Figures 1 f, 4 f, 22
discussion
Remarks. According to the formula of dorsal carination, it is close to N. euacanthoides. It differs from the latter in the form of coxal plates 1 and 2. Сoxal plates in N. euacanthus are rounded at the lower edge, and these are narrowly pointed in N. euacanthoides.
distribution
Distribution: Arctic Ocean: Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea and Kara Sea in depth range of 2 – 830 m on mud (Gurjanova 1951; G. Sars 1877, 1885, 1886; Stappers 1911; Wesławski 1990).
Name
- Synonyms
- Acanthozone panopla (Kroyer 1838)
- Neopleustes pulchellus (Kroyer 1846)
- Neopleustes pulchellus subsp. euacanthus (G. Sars 1877)
- Paramphithoe euacantha (G. Sars 1877)
- Paramphithoe pulchella (Kroyer 1846)
- Parapleustes pulchellus (Kroyer 1846)
- Pleustes euacanthus G. Sars 1877
- Homonyms
- Neopleustes euacanthus (G. Sars 1877)