Genus Stenopleustes G.O. Sars, 1893

Stenopleustes G.O. Sars, 1895: 354 .

Stenopleustes – Stebbing 1906: 316. — Gurjanova 1972: 132. — Barnard & Karaman 1991: 652. — Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: 53.

Type species

Amphithopsis malmgreni Boeck, 1871 .

The genus Stenopleustes contains seven known species (Horton et al. 2024) and a species new to science described herein: Stenopleustes eldingi Gurjanova, 1930, S. latipes (M. Sars, 1858), S. malmgreni (Boeck, 1871), S. nodifer (G.O. Sars, 1883), S. olriki (Hansen, 1888) and S. rainbowi Bellan-Santini, 2007 .

Diagnosis

Body robust, compressed. Head with rostrum and lateral lobes, only slightly produced. Coxal plates moderately large. Antenna 1 slender and much longer than 2; accessory flagellum absent or represented by vestigial scale. Mandible with molar large, surface triturative or ridged. Maxilliped palp article 3 with prominent apical process. Gnathopods subchelate, biramous, rami lanceolate. Telson entire. Sexes similar (Lincoln 1979). See Table 3 for the morphological differences of the Stenopleustes species.

Distribution

North Atlantic and Arctic.