Paracallisomopsis beljaevi Gurjanova, 1962

Kilgallen, Niamh M. & Lowry, James K., 2015, A review of the scopelocheirid amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea), with the description of new taxa from Australian waters, Zoosystematics and Evolution 91 (1), pp. 1-43 : 3-4

Paracallisomopsis beljaevi Gurjanova, 1962 Figures 6, 7

Paracallisomopsis beljaevi Gurjanova, 1962: 317, fig. 103a-c. - Stroobants 1976: 263, table 3. - Barnard and Karaman 1991: 511, fig. 92j. - Springthorpe and Lowry 1994: 10.

Type material.

Syntypes: 1 specimen, sex unknown, 5.5 mm, AM P.35701; 10 specimens, ZIN I-34963.

Type locality.

Bering Sea, Russia, Kamchatka, Olyutorsky Bay, 150 m [approximately 60°13'N, 168°23'E].

Depth range.

150 m ( Gurjanova 1962).

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality, Olyutorsky Bay in the Bering Sea ( Gurjanova 1962).

Discussion.

Stroobants (1976) considered the possibility that the specimen described by Gurjanova (1962) is a juvenile of Paracallisoma alberti . We consider it to be a valid species and placed in the subfamily Scopelocheirinae based on the columnar molar. We examined the syntype in the Australian Museum, but were unable to determine whether the molar has a triturating surface.