WoRMS taxon details
original description
D'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Havermans, C. (2015). Contribution to the systematics of the genus <em>Eurythenes </em>S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Eurytheneidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3971(1): 1-80., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3971.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Deepsea)
D'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Havermans, C. (2015). Contribution to the systematics of the genus <em>Eurythenes </em>S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Eurytheneidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3971(1): 1-80., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3971.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype DZMB DZMB-HH 7991, geounit Brazil Basin [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution The only absolutely certain record of the species is that of the holotype in the Brazil Basin (26°33'21"S 35°11'29"W) at 4480 m. However, the species may be widely distributed, since it presumably also occurs in the Gulf of Mexico round 3300 m depth, based on Escobar-Briones et al. (2010), who record Eurythenes specimens with extremely similar DNA sequences (Havermans et al. 2013). [details]
Etymology Sigmiferus, -a, -um, adjective created in combining Sigma, which is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, and the suffix -ferus, which means bearing. The name alludes to the dorsal sigmoid profile of most segments of the pereon and pleosome of the species. [details]
Type material HOLOTYPE. RV Meteor, expedition DIVA 3, ME 79-1, sta. 542, 26°33'21"S 035°11'29"W, 4480 m, baited trap, 21.vii.2009: 1 specimen, 53 mm, fixed first 96% denatured ethanol, coll. Ed Hendrycks, DZMB-HH 7991, ZMH K 44286; BraB-8, EG-2101108, JX887070 (16S). [details]
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