Parafoxiphalus longicarpus Alonso

Alonso, Gloria M., Pina, De, Rauschert, Martin & Broyer, Claude De, 2008, A catalogue of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) with taxonomic, distribution and ecological data, Zootaxa 1752, pp. 1-40 : 20-21

Parafoxiphalus longicarpus Alonso de Pina, 2001

Alonso de Pina, 2001: 517–527, figs. 1–6. Chiesa et al., 2005: 171, 172, tables 2, 3.

Distribution: M

Magellan Area: Argentina, Golfo Nuevo, Península Valdés, Punta Pardelas, 42°37’S 64°16’W, 2–5 m (gear: small dredge during low tide); Bahía Nueva, Golfito, 42°46’S 65°02’W, 8–10 m (gear: samples extracted with a cylinder of 20 cm diameter during low tide) (GMA 01); Península Ushuaia, 54°51’S 68°19’W, 5–10 m (gear: Van Veen grab); Bahía Aguirre, 54°54’S 65°57’W, 30–35 m (gear: dredge) (ICH et al. 05).

Type-locality: Magellan Area: Argentina, Golfo Nuevo, Península Valdés, Punta Pardelas, 42°37’S 64°16’W, 2–5 m (gear: small dredge during low tide) (GMA 01).

Depth range: 2– 35 m.

Ecology: Collected from sandy substrata.

Type material location: MACN, Buenos Aires.

Remarks: Parafoxiphalus Alonso de Pina, 2001 is monotypic, showing many similarities with Foxiphalus Barnard, 1979 such as the general aspect of the body, the unconstricted rostrum and the shape of the appendages; they differ principally in the setal formula on article 4 of antenna 2, in the number of calceoli on article 5 of male antenna 2, in the shape of gnathopods 1 and 2 and in the setation of peraeopods 3 and 4, epimera 1 and 2, and uropods 1 and 2.

Parafoxiphalus longicarpus extends its distribution in the Magellan area from Chubut province (Alonso de Pina, 2001) to southern Tierra del Fuego in Argentina (Chiesa et al., 2005).