Heterophoxus pellusidus Ren, 1991

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 : 13

Heterophoxus pellusidus Ren, 1991

Ren, 1991 in Ren and Huang, 1991: 189, 273–274, 297, 313–315, fig. 54. De Broyer and JaŻdŻewski, 1993: 83.

Distribution: W (+Ba)

Palmer Archipelago: 63°30’S 62°31’W, 180 m (bottom: sand) (R&H 91).

South Shetland Islands: 62°44.9’S 61°02.6’W, 128 m (bottom: mud); King George Island: 62°12.2’S 58°55’W, 110 m (bottom: mud); 62°10.8’S 58°20’W, 520 m (bottom: mud), 860 m (bottom: sand) (R&H 91).

Depth range: 110– 860 m.

Type-locality: South Shetland Islands: 62°44.9’S 61°02.6’W, 128 m (bottom: mud) (R&H 91).

Ecology: Collected from mudy and sandy bottoms.

Type material location: IOQ, Qingdao.

Remarks: This species, only reported by Ren and Huang (1991), is distinguished from the other known species of the genus by the following characters combined: shape of the epimeron 3 posteroventral angle which has a long and curved tooth, and the length of the posterior lobe of the basis on peraeopod 7 which reaches the distal margin of the merus.