WoRMS taxon details
original description
Stephensen, K. (1925). Hyperiidea - Amphipoda (Part. 3: Lyaeopsidae, Pronoidae, Lycaeidae, Brachyscelidae, Oxycephalidae, Parascelidae, Platyscelidae). <em>Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas.</em> 2, 151–252. page(s): 177-179 fig. 66 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Bermuda)
Morris, B. F. (1975). The neuston of the Northwest Atlantic
. Ph.D. thesis - Dalhousie University. [details]
basis of record
Ruffo, S. (2006). Crustacea Malacostraca Amphipoda. <em>in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana.</em> , available online at http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ [details]
redescription
Zeidler, W. (2021). A review of the hyperiidean amphipod family Brachyscelidae Stephensen, 1923 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5026 (3): 405–439., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5026.3.4 [details] Available for editors [request]
Syntype NHMD NHMD-85006, geounit East Mediterranean [details]
From editor or global species database
Type material There are several syntypes (approx. 36 specimens) of Brachyscelus macrocephalus in the NHMD, in alcohol. The type locality is the Mediterranean Sea, from several locations, mainly from the eastern basin; Thor stations 39, 43, 161, 277, 297, 298, 339, 340, 341, 385 (NHMD-87114–24; formerly CRU-9618–28 respectively). Stephensen (1925) illustrates a male and female (about 5 mm) from station 277 [33°20’N 27°30’E], 132 metres of
wire out (mw), 6 April 1911; partly dissected and labelled “Type” (NHMD-85006; formerly CRU-7162) [details]
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