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Fig. 23. Spirontocaris spinus (Sowerby), length up to
60 mm (From Smaldon, 1995).
Mynd 23. Spirontocaris spinus (Sowerby), longd upp í
60 mm (Úr Smaldon, 1995)
Nólsoy and Eysturoy, c. 200 m; 6 n.m. off Kalsoy, c.
110 m; »Prøvenæs in N 75 W, 13 miles, abt. 60 m«;
the east side of Hvannasund, 20 m. »Thor« Stn ? (30
May 1913), Trongisvágur, 20-30 m, one specimen
(Rømer, 1991). Berggren (1994) recorded it three
times between 0 and 20 m depth in the phytal zone in
Gjógv, Vestmanna (Nesið) and from Høgnaboði.
BIOFAR stations: 56, 102, 106,116, 192, 351, 370.
BIOFAR 2 stations: 1132, 1235, 1341.
Area: Faroe plateau, mainly inshore (Fig. 22).
Depth range: 5-208 m.
Temperature: estimated range 5.2 -10.6 °C.
Breeding: Ovigerous females have been taken in
January.
Watermass: AW (11 stns).
Atlantic distribution: Circumpolar; southwards to
western Sweden, the British Isles, and the Faroes; Jan
Mayen (Heegaard, 1941); common on the W, NW, N
and E coasts of Iceland (Stephensen, 1939); East
Greenland; from 82° N off West Greenland
(Stephensen, 1935) southwards to Massachusetts
(Smaldon etal., 1993).
Atlantic depth range: 5-400 (930 m), epi- or
hyperbenthic.
Family PANDALIDAE
Genus Dichelopandalus Caullery, 1896
Dichelopandalus bonnieri Caullery, 1896
(Fig. 24)
Synonyms: Pandalus leptorhyncus Kinahan (see Sars,
1883); Pandalus (Dichelopandalus) Bonnieri Caullery
(1896); Pandalus Bonnieri Calman (1899); Pandalus
leptoceros var. Bonnieri Wollebæk (1909).
Good descriptions: Calman (1899: 34, pls I-IV, fig. 3a,
b, d, g, h); Kemp (1910: 92).
Previous records: »Dana«: Stn 5840 (14 May 1938),
62° 44' N, 6° 06' W, 320 m, 5 specimens; Stn 6007
(25 July 1938), 62° 07’ N, 8° 35’ W, 375 m, 7
specimens; Stn 6008 (26 July 1938), 61° 39’ N, 7° 55’
W, 352 m, 18 specimens; Stn 6017 (30 July 1938), 62°
02’ N, 5° 13’ W, 220 m, 13 specimens. »Hvidbjørnen«
Stn 6 (10 January 1979), 61° 25.3’ N, 5° 29.8’ W, 195
m, one specimen (Rømer, 1991).
BIOFAR stations: 6, 7, 19, 27, 28, 29, 32, 43, 44, 47,
48, 49, 51, 62, 65, 70, 71, 73, 90, 97, 100,119, 122,
131, 158, 174, 235, 266, 281, 283, 289, 301, 308, 319,
324, 328, 331, 333, 353, 354, 357,411,452,453, 474,
475, 488, 495, 496, 497, 499, 518, 519, 534, 594, 598,
604, 621, 690, 746, 747, 755, 764, 765, 776, 779,
9004, 9006.
Fig. 24. Dichelopandalus bonnieri Caullery, length
usually up to 100 mm, max. 160 mm (From Smaldon,
1995).
Mynd 24. Dichelopandalus bonnieri Caullery, longd
vanliga upp í 100 mm, í mesta lagi 160 mm
(ÚrSmaldon, 1995).
Areas: Upper slopes of Lousy Bank, Bill Baily Bank,
Faroe Bank, and the Faroe plateau (Fig. 25).
Depth range: 170-725 m.
Temperature: measured at 4 stns, 0.9 to 7.9 °C;
estimated range 1.5 - 9.6 °C.
Breeding: Ovigerous females have been taken in May
and July.
Water masses: AW (60 stns), AW/AI (9 stns),
AW/AI/NW (2 stns) and AI (2 stns).
Atlantic distribution: East Atlantic species; range from
c. 70° N, Norway to Bay of Biscay; the Faroes
(Smaldon et al., 1993); rare off the southem and
westem coasts of Iceland (Stephensen, 1939).