Species Neognathophausia ingens (Dohrn, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lophogaster ingens Dohrn, A. 1870. Untersuchungen über Bau und Entwicklung der Arthropoden. 10. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Malacostraken und ihrer Larven. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 20: 607-625 3 pls [610, pl. 31 figs 12-14].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, off the west coast of Africa.

  Secondary source:

   Tattersall, O.S. 1955. Mysidacea. Discovery Reports 28: 1-190 [31].
• Gnathophausia calcarata Sars, G.O. 1885. Report on the Schizopoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(37): 1-228 pls 1-38 [35].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1886:37 1 specimen (specimen from Station 191 lost), Arafura Sea, "Challenger" Station 191 and in the vicinity of the Talaur Ils, south of Mindanao (Philippines) [4º33'N 127º6'E], "Challenger" Station 214 [05°41'S 134°4'30"E].
• Gnathophausia bengalensis Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. 1891. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator", Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N. commanding — Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890–91. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 8: 268-286 [269].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Bay of Bengal, "Investigator" Station 117 [11°58'N 88°52'17"E].

  Type locality references:

  Indian Museum Trustees 1914. Biological Collections of the RIMS "Investigator". List of Stations 1884–1913. Calcutta : Indian Museum.
• Gnathophausia doryphora Illig, G. 1906. Ein weiterer Bericht über die Schizopoden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898–1899. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 227-230 [227, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 22 501 2 specimens, off Cape Town, Deutsche Tiefsee Expedition "Valdivia" Station 91, north of the Cocos (Keeling) Ils, Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition "Valdivia" Station 182.

  Type locality references:

  Illig, G. 1930. Die Schizopoden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition 1898–1899 22: 397-625.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tattersall, O.S. 1955. Mysidacea. Discovery Reports 28: 1-190 [31]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Semicosmopolitan 40ºN–40ºS; South Africa, Philippines (Mindanao)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Abyssal, abyssopelagic, bathypelagic, continental slope, marine, oceanic.

 

General References

Fage, L. 1941. Mysidacea, Lophogastrida I. Dana Reports 4: 1-52

Mauchline, J. & Murano, M. 1977. World list of the Mysidacea, Crustacea. Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries [formerly Journal of the Tokyo College of Fisheries] 64: 39-88

Tattersall, O.S. 1955. Mysidacea. Discovery Reports 28: 1-190

 

History of changes

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