Species Hymenodora gracilis Smith, 1886

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• Hymenodora gracilis Smith, S.I. 1886. Report on the Decapod Crustacea of the Albatross Dredgings off the East-coast of the United States during the Summer and Autumn of 1884. Report of the United States Fish Commission 13: 605-705 pls 1-20 [dated 1887, but preprint (101 pp.) was available in 1886] [680 pl. 12 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, USNM, offE United States, NW Atlantic.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

S oceanic, Aust. Antarctic Terr., southern circumpolar, North Atlantic and Gulf of Panama, off Japan and off S Africa.

Ecological Descriptors

Abyssopelagic, bathypelagic, mesopelagic, oceanic province.

Extra Ecological Information

From 500–5300 m depth.

General References

Udekem d'Acoz, C. d' 1999. Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l'Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25ºN. Patrimoines naturels (M.N.H.N./S.P.N.) 40: 1-383 [84] (summary of literature)

Wasmer, R.A. 1993. Pelagic shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from six USNS Eltanin cruises in the Southeastern Indian Ocean, Tasman Sea, and the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Ross Sea. Biology of the Antarctic Seas. XXII 58: 49-91

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