Primno latreillei Stebbing

Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), Zootaxa 567, pp. 1-66 : 22-23

Primno latreillei Stebbing

Primno latreillei Stebbing, 1888: 1445–1447 , pl.179A.

Type material

The three syntypes of P. latreillei are in the BMNH (89.5.15.243): on four microscope slides .

Remarks

This is one of the smaller species of Primno , with adults reaching only 6–10mm in length. It is very similar to P. johnsoni , and Vinogradov et al. (1982) regard P. johnsoni as a junior synonym of P. latreillei . Amongst the Australian material examined ( Zeidler 1992a, 1998) there was considerable variation in the relative length of the basis of pereopod 7 compared to the remaining articles combined, ranging from slightly longer to about twice as long. This brings the specimens within the morphological range of P. johnsoni , which is probably synonymous with P. latreillei . The morphological variation found in pereopod 7 appears to be ontogenetic.

Primno latreillei seems to have a scattered distribution having been recorded from the Tasman Sea, the North Pacific Ocean (off California), the Red Sea, the eastern Mediterranean Sea and the south­eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea.