Stephonyx uncinatus Senna & Serejo, 2007

Lowry, J. K. & Kilgallen, N. M., 2014, A generic review of the lysianassoid family Uristidae and descriptions of new taxa from Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae), Zootaxa 3867 (1), pp. 1-92 : 78

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3867.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6319061

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scientific name

Stephonyx uncinatus Senna & Serejo, 2007
status

 

Stephonyx uncinatus Senna & Serejo, 2007 View in CoL

Stephonyx uncinatus Senna & Serejo, 2007: 8 View in CoL , figs 1–3.— Narahara et al., 2012: 1506 (key).

Types. Holotype, male, 36 mm, MNRJ 19498 View Materials . Paratypes: 13 specimens (four males, five females, four juveniles), MNRJ 18292 View Materials ; four specimens (one male, two females, one juvenile), MNRJ 18293 View Materials .

Type locality. Off the coast of Bahia State, Brazil (14°27’654”S 38°51’130”W), 730–739 m depth .

Habitat. Marine.

Depth range. 687–739 m ( Senna & Serejo 2007).

Feeding strategies. Scavenger, taken in baited traps ( Senna & Serejo 2007).

Distribution. Brazil. Off the coast of Bahia State ( Senna & Serejo 2007).

Narahara, Y., Tomikawa, K. & Torigoe, K. (2012) Four species of the genus Stephonyx (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Uristidae) from Japan, with description of a new species. Journal of Natural History, 46, 1477 - 1507. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2012.675598

Senna, A. R. & Serejo, C. (2007) A new deep-sea species of Stephonyx (Lysianassoidea: Uristidae) from off the central coast of Brazil. Nauplius, 15 (1), 7 - 14.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Uristidae

Genus

Stephonyx