Cyphocaris faurei K.H. Barnard 1916
Creators: name: Hughes, Lauren E.
name: Lowry, James K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Cyphocarididae
Cyphocaris
Cyphocaris faurei

description: Cyphocaris faurei K.H. Barnard, 1916
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Cyphocaris faurei K.H. Barnard, 1916: 117, pl. 26 fig. 4.— Schellenberg, 1926b: 215, figs 2e, 11, 12, pl. 5 fig. 4.— Schellenberg, 1929: 195.— K.H. Barnard, 1932: 32.— Pirlot, 1933: 128.— K.H. Barnard, 1937: 141.— K.H. Barnard, 1940: 440, 514 (list), 528 (key).— Gurjanova, 1951: 177 (key).— J.L. Barnard, 1958: 91.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1960: 169.— J.L. Barnard, 1961: 31.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1962: 34.— Gurjanova, 1962: 64 (key), 66, fig. 6.— Hurley, 1963: 25.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1964: 155.— Sanderson, 1973: 35.— Griffiths, 1974: 309.— Griffiths, 1976: 58 (key), fig. 32D.— Lowry & Bullock, 1976: 88.— Ledoyer, 1978: 375, fig. 8.— Herring, 1981: 170.— Andres, 1983: 185.— Austin, 1985: 600.— Hopkins, 1985: 202.— Ledoyer, 1986: 738, fig. 284.— Vinogradov, 1990: 41, 92.— Bowlby et al., 1991: 247.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 480.— De Broyer & Jazdzewski, 1993: 67.— Lowry & Stoddart, 1993: 67.— Lowry, 2000: 318.— Thurston, 2001: 684 (table 2).— Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 93.— Vinogradov, 2004: 53.— De Broyer et al., 2007: 119.
Type locality. Cape Point and north-west of East London, South Africa.
Material examined. Polynesia: 3 specimens (2 ovigerous females, 1 female with setose oostegites, AM P.58256, Polynesia (no further positioning data), stomach content of Tuna, 1994, coll. J. Poupin, RV Marara.
New Caledonia: 1 specimen, AM P.64004, off Noumea (22°3’S 167°44’E), Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl, 0−800 m over bottom depth 2500 m, 13 May 1971, 1830−2345 hrs, coll. J. Paxton, HMAS Kimbla (K4/71-11); 1 specimen, AM P.64005, off Noumea (21°5’S 166°45’E), Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl, 0−925 m over bottom depth 2115−2172 m, 1410−1740 hrs, 9 May 1971, coll. J. Paxton, HMAS Kimbla (K4/71-5).
Tasman Sea: 1 male, 24 mm, dissected 6 slides (mandibles in separate micro-vial), NMV J15789, off Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania (42°13’S 148°46.10’E), 1000 m, rectangular midwater trawl, 27 July 1986, coll. M.F. Gomon et al., RV Franklin (stn SLOPE 44); 1 immature female, 25 mm, AM P.66428, West Norfolk Ridge (32°36'18"S 167°47'26"E), 1008–1029 m, beam trawl, 29 May 2003, coll. P. Berents, NORFANZ expedition (TAN0308/111); 1 male specimen, AM P.64006, off St. Patricks Head (41°37’S 148°42’E), Engel pelagic trawl with attached fine net, 20−100 m above bottom 1030−1170 m, 16 July 1987, coll. K. Graham, FRV Soela (S 05/87/10).
Southern Ocean: 1 juvenile specimen, AM P.63999, Southern Ocean (64°18.3’S 78°43.9’E), rectangular midwater trawl, 1742 to 1812 hours, 18 February 1981, coll. J. Kirkwood, “ FIBEX ” expedition Australian Antarctic Division (gammarid Amphipoda #18; FIBEX 80).
Depth range. 175−900 m depth (Thurston, 2001).
Remarks. Cyphocaris faurei has been recorded from every world ocean except the Arctic Ocean.
Distribution. INDIAN OCEAN. off Nosy-Bé, Madagascar; Mozambique Channel, western Indian Ocean; east of Somalia, south-east of Dar Es Salaam, north-western Indian Ocean; Arabian Sea, Northern Arabian Sea, central Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman; Bay of Bengal, northern Indian Ocean; off Rodrigues Island, Mascarene Islands (K.H. Barnard 1937; J.L. Barnard 1961; Birstein & Vinogradov 1962, 1964; Ledoyer 1978; Vinogradov 2004).
BANDA SEA. Kai Islands, northern Makassar Strait, Indonesia; Straits of Moluccas (Pirlot 1933; Lowry & Stoddart 1993).
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. off south-west coast of Oahu, Hawaii; eastern North Pacific Ocean; Phoenix Islands, west of Gilbert Island, central Pacific Ocean (Schellenberg 1929; Hurley 1963; Bowlby et al 1991).
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN. south-west of Nazca Ridge, Sala-y-Gomez Ridges, eastern; eastern South Pacific Ocean; central South Pacific Ocean; Mariana Trench, Solomon Sea, Bougainville Trench, western South Pacific Ocean (Birstein & Vinogradov 1960; Vinogradov 1990).
ATLANTIC OCEAN. Guinea Basin, eastern Atlantic Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean, south-south-west of Cape Agulhas, eastern South Atlantic Ocean; mid-Atlantic Ocean (K.H. Barnard 1916, 1932; Birstein & Vinogradov 1962; Sanderson 1973).
SOUTHERN OCEAN. Croker Passage, between Bransfield and Gerlache Straits; Estrecho de Magallanes; Antarctic Peninsula; east of Antarctic Peninsula, Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea; South Indian Basin (Andres 1983; Hopkins 1985; De Broyer et al., 2007; current study).
description: Published as part of Hughes, Lauren E. & Lowry, James K., 2015, A review of the world Cyphocarididae with description of three new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4058 (1) on pages 16-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/235526