Fróðskaparrit

						MYSIDACEA (CRUSTACEA) IN THE FAROE AREA

Pseudomma jasi Meland & Brattegard,

1995

Good description: Meland and Brattegard (1995: 142,

figs. 25, 26).

Previous records: None.

BIOFAR stations: 696 (type locality).

Area: North of Bill Bailey Bank.

Depth: 1319 m.

Temperature: measured, 1.3 °C.

Water mass: AW/AI/NW (1 stn).

Atlantic distribution: southwest of the Faroes.

Atlantic depth: Only known from the type-locality,

1319 m, hyperbenthic.

Pseudomma nanum Holt and Tattersall,

1906

Good descriptions: Tattersall and Tattersall (1951: 238,

fig. 54); Nouvel and Lagardere (1976: 1299, figs. 164-

184); Meland and Brattegard (1995: 137, figs. 18, 19,

27).

Previous records: None.

BIOFAR stations: 68, 9003.

Areas: Southwest of Wyville-Thomson Ridge, and

north of Faroe Bank.

Depth range: 600 - 1414 m.

Temperature: measured at one stn, 4.5 °C; estimated

range 4.4 - 9.1 °C.

Water masses: AW (1 stn) and AW/AI (1 stn).

Bottom type: Soft bottom.

Atlantic distribution: The Faroes; west and south-west

of Ireland, and Bay of Biscay.

Atlantic depth range: 360 - 1500 m, hyperbenthic

(Meland and Brattegard, 1995). Also found in

stomachs of demersal fish in Rockall Trough at depths

of 1500 and 2200 m (Mauchline, 1982).

Bank and the southern slope and top of Faroe-Iceland

Ridge(Fig. 17).

Depth range: 425 - 940 m.

Temperature: measured at 7 stns, -0.1 to 6.5 °C;

estimated range < 0 - 9 °C.

Water masses: AW (3 stns), AW/AI (3 stns), AI (5

stns) and AI/NW (4 stns).

Bottom types: Soft bottom, sand.

Atlantic distribution: From Lofoten, Norway to Bay of

Biscay; the Faroes; south of Iceland; west of

Greenland; Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gulf of Maine, and

just south of Georges Bank.

Atlantic depth range: 216 - 1260 m, hyperbenthic.

Pseudomma truncatum S. I. Smith, 1879

Good description: Meland and Brattegard (1995: 120,

figs. 9, 10).

Previous records: None.

BIOFAR stations: 15, 41, 82, 380, 424, 458, 9013,

9014.

Areas: The top of the Faroe-Iceland Ridge, the

northern and eastern slopes of the Faroe plateau, and

the south-eastern slope of Faroe Bank.

Depth range: 425 - 780 m.

Temperature: measured at 8 stns, -0.6 to 6.5 °C.

Water masses: AW/AI (1 stn), AI/NW (2 stns) and NW

(5 stns).

Atlantic distribution: The Faroes; widely distributed in

cold areas of the North Atlantic (Meland and

Brattegard 1995, fig. 11, p. 124), but they noted that

there is morphological variation between populations

in the north-western Atlantic, the north-eastern

Atlantic, and the northem Pacific. Further investigation

on morphological variation should help solving the

problem of the taxonomic status of P. truncatum.

Atlantic depth range: 100 - 780 m, hyperbenthic.

Pseudomma roseum G. O. Sars, 1870

Synonyms: Wrongly identified as P. ajfine by Patience

(1904; 1907) and by Holt and Tattersall (1905).

Good description: Meland and Brattegard (1995: 124,

figs. 1,2, 12, 13).

Previous records: »Thor«, 61° 08' N, 9° 28' W, 820 m,

and 61° 15' N, 9° 35' W, 940 m (Hansen, 1908).

BIOFAR stations: 10, 82 (P. cf. roseum), 120, 124,

172, 232, 267, 380, 421, 422, 447, 492, 739.

Areas: Mainly found on the eastern and northeastern

slopes of the Faroe plateau, the western slope of Faroe

Tribe Leptomysini

Genus Leptomysis G. O. Sars, 1869

Leptomysis gracilis (G. O. Sars, 1864)

(Fig. 18 A)

Synonyms: Mysis gracilis Sars (1864); Mysidopsis

hispida Norman (1869).

Good description: Tattersall and Tattersall (1951: 287,

figs. 70, 71).

Previous records: None.