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CAPRELLIDEA (CRUSTACEA; AMPHIPODA) FROM FAROEISLANDS WATERS,
WITH A KEY TO THE NORTH-ATLANTIC SPECIES
C. rinki Stephensen, 1917
Good description: Laubitz and Mills (1972:374).
Previous records from Faroe Island waters: Ingolf st.
44. 61°42’N 9°36’W (Stephensen, 1944).
BIOFAR station: 335, 738.
Depthrange: 180-1416m.
Temperature range: 2.5 - 3.7 °C.
Distribution: Single specimens from Denmark Strait,
Cape Cod, St. Lawrence Bay, Cape Farevel, West
Greenland.
C. septentrionalis Krøyer, 1879
Good description: McCain (1968:47).
Previous records from Faroe Island waters: Extensively
all around the Faroes. (Stephensen, 1929. McCaine,
1968. Laubitz, 1972. Larsen, unpublished data).
BIOFAR station: 98, 113, 149.
Depth range: 0-1026m.
Temperature range: 0.0 - 7.9 °C.
Distribution: Coast of Europe from Bay of Biscay to
Murmansk. Nova Selmiya. Svalbard. lan Mayen. Coast
of Iceland. Shetland Island. Coast of Greenland from
Angmassalik to Upernavik. Thule. Baffin Island.
Hudson Bay and coast of Labrador. Nova Scotia.
Newfoundland to Cape Cod.
Genus Metacaprella Mayer, 1903
M. horrida (G.O. Sars, 1877)
Good description: Laubitz (1972:64).
Previous records from Faroe Island waters: No locality
given (Laubitz, 1972). Extensively (Larsen,
unpublished data).
BIOFAR station: 15, 41, 48, 51, 76, 77, 82, 98, 113,
124, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 188, 228, 230, 274, 275,
361, 424,447,479, 480, 500, 502, 699, 700, 750, 751,
752, 769, 770, 9012.
Depth range: 35-1359m.
Temperature range: -0.85 - 9.0 °C.
Distribution: Coast of mid- and north Norway.
Svalbard. Nova Selmiya. North Scotland. Shetland
Island. Irminger Sea. North
of Iceland. Cape Farevel. Scoresbysund. Single
specimens from Arctic Canada. Shelf of
Newfoundland.
Genus Proaeginia Stephensen, 1940
P. norvegica Stephensen, 1931.
Good description: Laubitz and Mills (1972:380).
Previous records from Faroe Island waters: None
BIOFAR station: 726.
Depth range: 174-2702m.
Temperature range: 6.7 °C.
Distribution: Single specimens from North Norway,
southeast Iceland, southwest Greenland and off Cape
Cod.
Genus Thorina Stephensen, 1944
T. spinosa Stephensen, 1944
Good description: Stephensen (1944:50).
Previous records from Faroe Island waters: 61°15’N
9°35’W (Stephensen, 1944).
BIOFAR station: None.
Depth range: 900m.
Temperature range: Unknown.
Distribution: Know from type locality only.
Family PHTISICIDAE Vassilienko, 1968
Genus Phtisica Slabber, 1769
P. marina Slabber, 1769
Good description: McCain (1968:96).
Previous records from Faroe Island waters: Skála-
fjørður (Stephensen, 1929). Tórshavn (Larsen,
unpublished data). No locality given (McCaine, 1968).
BIOFAR station: 6, 7, 8, 27, 29, 32,73, 77, 78, 103,
165, 176, 357, 359, 408.
Depth range: 0-1032m.
Temperature range: -0.85 - 9.1°C.
Distribution: Azores. Coast from west Africa to North
Cape, incl. the North coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
East, north and northwest of the British Islands.
Shetland. Coast of south Carolina to the Gulf of
Mexico.
Family PROTELLIDAE McCaine, 1970
Genus Protellina Stephensen, 1944
P. ingolfi Stephensen, 1944
Good description: Larsen (1996).
Previous records from Faroe Island waters: None.
BIOFAR station: 478.
Depth range: 630-1435m.
Temperature range: -0.8 - (-0.4) °C.
Distribution: Norwegian Sea 65°34’N 7°31’W. North
Iceland.