WoRMS taxon details
original description
Othaitz J.P & Sorbe J.C. (2020). <em>Eusirus bonnieri</em> sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae), a new deep species from the southeastern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic Ocean). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4751(2): 238-256., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4751.2.2 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype MNHN MNHN-IU-2013-5702, geounit Capbreton canyon [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The species is named after Jules Bonnier (1859–1908; Station Zoologique de Wimereux) in recognition of his pioneering work on bathyal peracarids from the Bay of Biscay. His study was published in 1896, only one year after the ‘Caudan’ campaign. Among many new bathyal species belonging to amphipods, cumaceans, isopods and tanaids (Bonnier, 1896), he also described Eusirus biscayensis from one female sampled on muddy bottoms off Arcachon Bay (940 m depth). [details]
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