Stenopleustes G.O. Sars, 1893

Lörz, Anne-Nina & Tandberg, Anne Helene S., 2025, North Atlantic Pleustidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with a focus on cold-water coral associations, European Journal of Taxonomy 1009, pp. 1-50 : 29

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scientific name	Stenopleustes G.O. Sars, 1893
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Genus Stenopleustes G.O. Sars, 1893 View in CoL

Stenopleustes G.O. Sars, 1895: 354 View in CoL .

Stenopleustes View in CoL – Stebbing 1906: 316. — Gurjanova 1972: 132. — Barnard & Karaman 1991: 652. — Hendrycks & Bousfield 2004: 53.

Type species

Amphithopsis malmgreni Boeck, 1871 .

The genus Stenopleustes View in CoL contains seven known species ( Horton et al. 2024) and a species new to science described herein: Stenopleustes eldingi Gurjanova, 1930 View in CoL , S. latipes (M. Sars, 1858) View in CoL , S. malmgreni ( Boeck, 1871) , S. nodifer (G.O. Sars, 1883) View in CoL , S. olriki ( Hansen, 1888) View in CoL and S. rainbowi Bellan-Santini, 2007 View in CoL .

Diagnosis

Body robust, compressed. Head with rostrum and lateral lobes, only slightly produced. Coxal plates moderately large. Antenna 1 slender and much longer than 2; accessory flagellum absent or represented by vestigial scale. Mandible with molar large, surface triturative or ridged. Maxilliped palp article 3 with prominent apical process. Gnathopods subchelate, biramous, rami lanceolate. Telson entire. Sexes similar ( Lincoln 1979). See Table 3 View Table 3 for the morphological differences of the Stenopleustes species.

Distribution

North Atlantic and Arctic.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Amphipoda
SuperFamily	Amphilochoidea
Family	Pleustidae
SubFamily	Stenopleustinae