WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Monoculodes longimanus Spence Bate & Westwood, 1868) Bate C. S. & J. O. Westwood. (1863-68). A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Vol. 2. John Van Voorst, London, i-lvi + 536 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1831670 page(s): 507 [details]
original description
(of Monoculodes grubei Boeck, 1871) Boeck, A. (1871). Crustacea amphipoda borealia et arctica. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1870: 83-280., available online at https://archive.org/details/crustaceaamphipo00boec page(s): 165 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Bachelet, G.; Dauvin, J. C.; J-C, C. (2003). An updated checklist of marine and brackish water Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the southern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 44: 121-151. [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (WoRCS)
Navarro-Barranco, C.; Martínez, A.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Chebaane, S.; Digenis, M.; Plaitis, W.; Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2023). Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(12): 1180., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/12/1180 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Schelde)
Maris, T.; Beauchard, O.; Van Damme, S.; Van den Bergh, E.; Wijnhoven, S.; Meire, P. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (BeRMS 2020)
Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the Water Framework Directive in the period 2007-2009. [details]
basis of record
Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source
Barnard, K.H. (1955). Additions to the fauna-list of South African Crustacea and Pycnogonida. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 43: 1-107., available online at https://ia800308.us.archive.org/19/items/annalsofsouthafr4319sout/annalsofsouthafr4319sout.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The use of the name ‘Spence Bate’ instead of ‘Bate’ is discussed herein. See page 201. [details]Unreviewed
Biology This amphipod burrows in the superficial layer of the sediment. Generally, breeding behaviour of infaunal amphipods is influenced by location. In deeper waters the spring rise in temperature initiates breeding, while in shallower waters it is induced by tidal phasing (Fincham, 1971; Lincoln, 1979). Oedicerotids, the amphipod family to which P. longimanus belongs, burrow through the surface layer of the sediment while feeding. Aquarium investigations showed that they are detritivore and only use the mouth parts and the gnathopods for collecting food. They ingest loose detritus sifted from the mud-and-water interface or gathered by the maxillipeds from the rnaterial passed to them by the gnathopods (Enequist, 1949). [details]
Distribution Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel) [details]
Distribution P. longimanus is widespread and is frequently recorded from the subtidal in the Delta area down to depths of about 50 metres at the Oyster Ground. The highest densities are recorded at the Dogger Bank and in the eastern part of the Dutch Continental Shelf. [details]
Distribution Mediterranean, Atlantic (Griffiths, 1973). [details]
Habitat There seems to be no preference for any type of sediment. [details]
Habitat circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Morphology P. longimanus is up to about 5 mm in length. The head has a wide down turned rostrum. The eyes are very large, bright red, completely coalesced and have relatively few large visual elements. The telson is not subdivided. The body is pale orange and translucent (Lincoln, 1979; Hayward & Ryland, 1990) [details]
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