Eucopia sculpticauda Faxon, 1893

Vicente, Carlos San, 2016, An annotated check-list of lophogastrids (Crustacea: Lophogastrida) from the seas of the Iberian Peninsula, Zootaxa 4178 (4), pp. 481-502 : 487

Eucopia sculpticauda Faxon, 1893

Distribution. Atlantic, including Caribbean, Indo-Pacific. Mauritania, Bay of Bengal, off Seychelles, Philippines, Hawaii, Peru Trench, W-Africa, South Africa, Comores, Madagascar, Indonesia, southern California and Oregon, east coast of Greenland, Golfe de Gascogne, Antarctica.

Depth range. 850–6000 m.

Habitat. Meso- to bathypelagic or bathypelagic as adult.

Iberian Seas published records. South Bay of Biscay ( Fage 1942). Off Calician and Asturias coasts ( Lagardère 1983, 1985). Off Calician coasts ( Nouvel 1943) . Azores / Biscay rise close to the margin of the Iberian- Abyssal Plain (42ºN–17ºW: Angel et al. 1982, Hargreaves 1985). Off Portugal (41º37'N – 12º36'W: Tattersall 1955) . South Canary Islands-Cape Bojador ( Illig 1930). Off Gulf of Cádiz ( Nouvel 1943). Offshore species related to the Canary Archipelago ( Wittmann & Wirtz 1998, Haroun & Garrido 2003, Wittmann et al., 2004 Wittmann & Riera 2012) . Madeira ( Wittmann & Riera 2012) . Azores, Madeira and Canaries ( Fage 1942, Nouvel 1943). Atlantic coast of Morocco ( Furnestin 1957). Off South Morocco (24º30’N – 17º01’W: De Jong & Casanova 1997b, Wittmann & Riera 2012).