Genus Pleustes Spence Bate, 1858

Pleustes Spence Bate, 1858: 362 (partim.)

Pleustes – Barnard 1969: 421 (partim.). — Gurjanova 1951: 634 (partim.). – Barnard & Karaman 1991: 650. — Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994: 39.

Type species

Pleustes tuberculata Spence Bate, 1858 .

The genus Pleustes contains 12 known species in two subgenera (Horton et al. 2024): Pleustes (Catapleustes) angulatus Shoemaker, 1955; Pleustes (Catapleustes) constantinus Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994; Pleustes (Catapleustes) japonensis Gurjanova, 1972; Pleustes (Catapleustes) paradoxus Gurjanova, 1972; Pleustes (Catapleustes) victoriae Barnard & Hendrycks, 1994; Pleustes (Pleustes) auctirostris Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994; Pleustes (Pleustes) gurjanovae Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994; Pleustes (Pleustes) lawrencianus Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1994; Pleustes (Pleustes) obtusirostris Gurjanova, 1972; Pleustes (Pleustes) panoplus (Krøyer, 1838); Pleustes (Pleustes) sibiricus Gurjanova, 1972; Pleustes (Pleustes) tuberculatus Spence Bate, 1858 .

Diagnosis

A diagnosis of the genus Pleustes is provided by Bousfield & Hendrycks (1994).

Distribution

North Atlantic, North Pacific, Arctic.