Lepechinelloides karii, KARII THURSTON, 1980

Lörz, Anne-Nina, Brix, Saskia, Jażdżewska, Anna M. & Hughes, Lauren Elizabeth, 2020, Diversity and distribution of North Atlantic Lepechinellidae (Amphipoda: Crustacea), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190, pp. 1095-1122 : 1118

LEPECHINELLOIDES KARII THURSTON, 1980

Lepechinelloides karii Thurston, 1980: 83–86 , figs 10–12. — Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 269.

Type locality: North Atlantic , Iceland Basin, 60°07.5’N, 19°26.6’W, 2646 m (Discovery station 7709#72) .

Material examined: ZMH-K 56629, one specimen, IceAGE ME 85-3, station 967, Iceland Basin , south Iceland, North Atlantic (60°02.770’N, 21°28.540’W to 0°02.780’N, 21°30.070’W) 2750.4 m, 29 August 2011 .

ZMH-K 56630 one specimen, IceAGE, ME 85-3, station 979, Iceland Basin , south Iceland, North Atlantic (60°21.48’N, 018°08.24’W to 60°20.72’N, 018°08.60’W), 2567.6 m, 30 August 2011 .

Remarks: The two specimens recorded from the IceAGE expedition provide more recent collections of Lepechinelloides karii with a total of 95 specimens known from six stations in the Iceland Basin.

Depth range: 2150 to 2750 m.

Distribution: Iceland Basin ( Thurston, 1980; present study) ( Fig. 9B , Tables 1, 2).

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Figure 9. Distribution of: A, Lepechinella skarphedini (star); B, Lepechinella chrysotheras (rhomb), Lepechinelloides karii (star), Lepesubchela christinae (circle). Numbers indicate stations codes (see Table 1 for station details), the arrows indicate the type localities.