Fróðskaparrit

						REYÐÆTI AV SLAGNUM MYSIDACEA A LANDGRUNNINUM

Depth range: 329 - 624 m.

Temperature: measured at one stn, 8.0 °C; estimated

range7.1 - 9.4 °C.

Water mass: AW.

Bottom type: Soft bottom, fine shell-sand.

Atlantic distribution: From eastern Finnmark, Norway

to Bay of Biscay; the Faroes; south of Iceland (?); east,

south and west coasts of Greenland; Davis Strait; Gulf

of St. Lawrence (Dunbar et al., 1980). According to

Petryashov (1989) it is absent from Arctic water

masses.

Atlantic depth range: 150 - 1372 m (Hansen, 1908),

hyperbenthic (T. Brattegard, unpublished). The

specimen reported by Brandt (1997) as Amblyops

abbreviata from off East Greenland (stn 31 -06, 74° 57'

N, 11° 07' W, depth 2681-2675 m) was wrongly

identified and is in fact Pseudomma frigidum.

Amblyops kempi (Holt and Tattersall,

1905)

Synonym: Pseudomma kempi Holt and Tattersall

(1905).

Good description: Tattersall and Tattersall (1951: 251,

fig. 58).

Previuous records: None.

BIOFAR station: 9003.

Area: Southwest of Wyville-Thomson Ridge.

Depth: 1414 m.

Temperature: measured , 4.5 °C; estimated range 4.4 -

5.6 °C.

Water mass: AW/AI.

Bottom type: Soft bottom.

Atlantic distribution: The Faroes; west of the Hebrides;

west of Ireland; Rockall Trough (Mauchline, 1986);

Gulf of St. Lawrence (Dunbar et ai, 1980).

Atlantic depth range: 699 - 1464 m, hyperbenthic.

Genus Amblyopsoides O. S. Tattersall 1955

Amblyopsoides ohlinii (W. M. Tatter-

sall,1951)

Synonyms: Wrongly identified as Amblyops Crozetii

by Ohlin (1901); Amblyops n. sp. Hansen (1908);

Amblyops ohlinii W. M. Tattersall (1951).

Good description: Tattersall (1951: 130, fig. 45).

Previous records: None.

BIOFAR stations: 9007, 9019.

Area: In deep water north of the Faroes.

Depth range: 2199 - 2420 m.

Temperature: measured at 2 stns, -0.94 and -0.9 °C.

Water mass: NW.

Bottom type: Soft bottom.

Atlantic distribution: Norwegian Sea; the Faroes;

Rockall Trough (Mauchline, 1986).

Atlantic depth range: 1690 - 3100 m, hyperbenthic (T.

Brattegard, unpublished).

Genus Erythrops G. O. Sars, 1869

Erythrops glacialis G. O. Sars, 1885

Good description: Sars (1885: 45, pl. 5, figs. 1-4).

Previous records: None.

BIOFARstations:41, 168, 169, 170, 171.

Areas: In deep slope-water north of the Faroes and in

the Faroe-Shetland Channel.

Depth range: 601 - 1032 m.

Temperature: measured at 5 stns, -0.95 to -0.2 °C.

Water masses: AI/NW (1 stn) and NW (5 stns).

Atlantic distribution: Restricted to the Norwegian Sea;

the Faroes.

Atlantic depth range: 242 - 1290 m, hyperbenthic

(Ohlin, 1901; T. Brattegard, unpublished).

Erythrops microps (G. O. Sars, 1864)

Synonyms: Nematopus mierops Sars (1864); Erythrops

microphthalma Sars (1870).

Good description: Tattersall and Tattersall (1951: 201,

fig. 43).

Previous records: None.

BIOFAR stations: 67, 68, 120, 380, 522 and 524.

Areas: On the western and north-eastern slopes of the

Faroes.

Depth range: 425 - 1144 m.

Temperature: measured at one stn, 6.5 °C; estimated

range < 0 - 9.4 °C.

Water masses: AW (3 stn) and AW/AI (3 stns).

Atlantic distribution: Shelf-edge species, from Lofoten,

Norway to off the southwest coast of Ireland; the

Faroes; northeast Greenland (76° N Stephensen, 1943;

75° N Brandt, 1997); from off western Greenland to

off New Jersey, U.S.A.

Atlantic depth range: 110 - 1144 m, hyperbenthic

(Fossá and Brattegard, 1990; T. Brattegard,

unpublished).