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MYSIDACEA (CRUSTACEA) IN THE FAROE AREA

Fig. 2. Eucopia unguiculata

(Willemoes-Suhm), adult female, length ofadults 27-

43 mm. (From Tattersall and Tattersall, 1951).

Eucopia unguiculata (Willemoes-Suhm) fullvaksið

kvenndýr, longd á fullvaksnum 27-43 mm. (Frá

Tattersall and Tattersall, 1951).

Good description: Tattersall and Tattersall (1951: 82,

figs. 3-5).

Previous records: »Ingolf« Expedition, Stn 42, 61° 41'

N, 10° 17'W(Hansen, 1908).

BIOFAR stations: Not recorded by BIOFAR.

Area: The northern slope of Bill Bailey Bank.

Depth range: 1175 m.

Temperature: measured, 0.4 °C.

Water mass: AW/AI/NW.

Atlantic distribution: Oceanic, widely distributed in the

tropical and temperate waters from off the Faroes,

Iceland and Greenland to off Tristan da Cunha (O S.

Tattersall, 1955).

Atlantic depth range: 400 - 4825 m (Lagardere, 1983),

bathypelagic.

Genus Lophogaster M. Sars, 1857

Lophogaster typicus M. Sars, 1857 (Fig. 4)

has recently been caught in the Norwegian Trough (58°

20' N, 5° 19' E, 325 m, O. A. Bergstad, pers. commn).

Atlantic depth range: 300 - 2400 (-3800 ?) m. Meso-

and bathypelagic, performs daily vertical migrations of

c. 400 m (Hargreaves, 1985b).

Genus Gnathophausia Willemoes-Suhm,

1873

Gnathophausia zoea Willemoes-Suhm,

1873 (Fig. 3)

Synonyms: G. willemoesii G. O. Sars (1883); G. sarsi

Wood-Mason and Alcock (1891); G. cristata Illig

(1906).

Fig. 3. Gnathophausia zoea Willemoes-Suhm,

young male, length ofadults up to 140 mm.

(From Tattersall and Tattersall, 1951).

Gnathophausia zoea Willemoes-Suhm, ungt kalldýr,

longd á fullvaksnum upp til 140 mm. (Frá Tattersall

and Tattersall, 1951).

Fig. 4. Lophogaster typicus M. Sars, adult male,

length of adults 18-22 mm. (From Tattersall and

Tattersall, 1951).

Lophogaster typicus M. Sars, fullvaksið kalldýr, longd

á fullvaksnum 18-22 mm. (Frá Tattersall and

Tattersall, 1951).

Synonyms: Ctenomysis alata Norman (1862);

Lophogaster serratus Bjorck (1916).

Good description: Tattersall and Tattersall (1951: 90,

figs. 6-8).

Previous records: None.

BIOFAR stations: 689, 690, 692, 693, 9004.

Area: The top and slopes of Lousy Bank (Fig. 6).

Depth range: 290 - 357 m.

Temperature: measured at all stns, 7.9 - 8.0 °C,

estimated range 7.8 - 9.4 °C.

Water mass: AW.

Bottom type: Silt, sand.

Atlantic distribution: Essentially a coastal and shelf

species known from Trondheimsfjorden, Norway to

Spain; the Faroes; Rockall Bank (Fraser, 1970); off