Orchomenopsis reducta, (Schellenberg, 1931)

Thurston, Michael H. & Horton, Tammy, 2020, Claudedebeella, a replacement name for Falklandia De Broyer, 1985 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea, Tryphosidae), preoccupied by Falklandia Forster & Platnick, 1985 (Arachnida, Araneae), Zootaxa 4750 (3), pp. 437-438 : 437

Claudedebeella reducta ( Schellenberg, 1931)

Orchomenopsis reducta Schellenberg, 1931: 49 51, fig. 26.

Orchomenella reducta .— Ruffo, 1949: 11, fig. 1.— Barnard, 1958: 97.

Orchomene reducta .— Barnard, 1964: 89 (in key).— Lowry & Bullock, 1976: 100.— Shulenberger & Barnard, 1976: 248.

Falklandia reducta .— De Broyer, 1985: 303 312, figs 1 6.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 487.— De Broyer & Jażdżewski, 1993: 68.— De Broyer & Rauschert, 1999: 285. — De Broyer et al., 2007: 138.— Havermans et al., 2010: 204 207.— Havermans et al., 2011: 233, 235.— Lowry & Kilgallen, 2014: 303.

Remarks. Despite multiple literature records, knowledge of the species is based on only five specimens, three from the type locality, 52°29’S 60°36’W, just south-west of the Falkland Islands at a depth of 197 metres ( Schellenberg, 1931), one from 70°15’S 85°06’W, in the Bellingshausen Sea at a depth of 569 metres ( Ruffo, 1949) and one from 61°23’S 55°26’W, in the Scotia Sea at a depth of 285 metres ( Havermans et al., 2011).