WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Leucothoe clypeata Krøyer, 1842) Krøyer, H. ([1842]). Zoologie. Crustacés. <i>In</i>: Gaimard, P. (Ed),. <em>Voyages de la Commission Scientifique du Nord en Scandinavie, en Laponie au Spitzberg et aux Faröe pendant les années 1838, 1839 et 1840 sur la corvette la recherche commandée par M. Fabvre Lieutenant de vasseau.</em> Arthus Bertrand, Paris. Pls. "1-43" [only pls. 1-5, 5a, 6-11, 11b, 13-20, 22-31, 35-43 were issued (40 plates total); no text]. [details]
new combination reference
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 note: Boeck 1871 erected the genus Metopa [details]
From other sources
Distribution Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, lower St. Lawrence estuary, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait) [details]
Habitat infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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