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DECAPODA NATANTIA (CRUSTACEA) í FØROYSKUM ØKI
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Breeding: Ovigerous females have been taken in April
and May.
Water masses: AI (14 stns), AW/AI (1 stn) and NW
(lstn).
Atlantic distribution: From Franz Josef Land to
Britain; the Faroes; around Iceland and Jan Mayen;
East Greenland; West Greenland from ca. 71° N (one
record from 75° N) (Stephensen, 1939) to 41° N off the
coastofUSA (Smaldon etal., 1993).
Atlantic depth range: 20-1355 m, frequently from 80-
500 m, hyperbenthic.
Fig. 30. Pandalus montagui Leach, length usually up
to 100 mm, max. 160 mm (From Christiansen, 1972).
Mynd 30. Pandalus montagui Leach, longd vanliga
upp í 100 mm, í mesta lagi 160 mm (Ur Christiansen,
1972)
Pandalus montagui Leach, 1814 (Fig. 30)
Synonym: Pandalus annulicornis auctores.
Good descriptions: Calman (1899: 30, pls I-IV, fig. 1);
Kemp (1910: 86, pl. X, ftg. 8).
Previous records: According to Hansen (1908) and
Stephensen (1928) the species seems to be very
common at the Faroes, where it has been taken 25-30
times, especially at depths from 2-25 m, but also down
to c. 100 m. »Michael Sars«: Stn 44 (1902), 62° 16’ N,
6° 06’ W, 110 m; Stn 83 (1902), 62° 29’ N, 7° 37’ W,
120 m, 8.71 °C (Grieg, 1927). Rømer (1991) gives a
long list of localities: »Thor«: Stn 21 (O.P) (4
Junel913), Trongisvágur, ? m, 2 specimens; Stn 47
(O.P) (4 June 1913), Trangisvág, ? m, 2 specimens; Stn
109 (O.P) (June 1913), Trongisvágur, ? m, one
specimen; Stn ? (year 1913), one specimen. »Dana«:
Stn 5666 (31 July 1937), Gøtuvík sound, 37 m, one
specimen; Stns 5668-5669 (6 August 1937)
(Kaldbaksfjørður, 30-55 m, one specimen; Stn 5678 (6
August 1937), Sundini, between Haldarsvík and Ljósá,
54 m, 72 specimens. One record by Samuel Petersen
(September/ October 1937) from Klaksvfk, ? m, one
specimen. Records by E. Ursin: 62° 37’ N, 7° 03’ W,
122-130 m, 3 specimens (10 October 1946); 62° 05’ N,
6° 15’ W, 102 m, 6 specimens (9 October 1946); 62°
04.4’ N, 6° 13.2’ W, 104 m, 4 specimens (27
September 1946); 62° 23’ N, 7° 03’ W, 106 m, 8
specimens (10 October 1946). »Dana«: Stn 9066 (15
June 1954), 61° 17’ N, 6° 58’ W, 140-147 m, 4
specimens; Stn 9064 (15 June 1954), 61° 31’ N, 6°
38.5’ W, 65-60 m, 2 specimens. »Hvidbjørnen«: Stn 6
(10 January 1979), 61° 25.3’ N, 5° 29.8’ W, 195 m, 2
specimens; Stn 7 (14 January 1979), 62° 16.5’ N, 6°
25.4’ W, 50-45 m, 5 specimens; Stn 15(17 January
1979), 62° 21.3’ N, 5° 51.2’ W, 100 m, one specimen;
Stn 16 (18 January 1979), 62° 39.0’ N, 6° 36.1’ W,
155 m, 5 specimens; Stn 17 (18 January 1979), 62°
37.3’ N, 6° 45.5’ W, 143-135 m, 11 specimens; Stn 18
(18 January 1979), 62° 06.2’ N, 7° 48.0’ W, 105 m,
one specimen; Stn 25 (21 January 1979), 61° 07.1’ N,
8° 04.8’ W, 135 m, 9 specimens; Stn 24 (21 January
1979), 61° 00.3’ N, 8° 48.9’ W, 105-100 m, 2
specimens; Stn 26 (21 January 1979), 62° 06.9’ N, 7°
47.5’ W, ? m, 16 specimens; Stn 27 (22 January 1979),
62° 01.4’ N, 7° 19.5’ W, 70 m, 2 specimens. Berggren
(1994) found it regularly between 0 and 20 m depth in
the phytal zone at 14 localities (Gjógv, Oyndarfjørður,
Grønskriðudrangur, Vestmanna, Leynar,
Kaldbaksbotnur, Kaldbaksfjørður (central north),
Kaldbaksfjørður (Mógvanes), Stórafles, Hoyvík,
Kirkjubøur, Hvannhólmur, Øravík and Akratangi.
BIOFAR stations: 6,7, 52, 56, 60, 70,76, 77, 98, 100,
102, 105, 106,110, 111, 165,173, 192, 261, 264, 325,
344, 349, 350, 351, 354, 355, 359, 367, 368, 370, 372,
408, 409,410,452,545,548, 597, 602, 606, 607, 677,
724, 726, 728, 776, 9016.
BIOFAR 2 stations: 1150, 1162, 1194, 1197, 1230,
1244, 1341.
Areas: Faroe Bank, the Faroe plateau, and southem
slope of Faroe-Iceland Ridge.
Depth range: 0-780 (1003) m, juveniles in shallow
water, adults in deep water.
Temperature: measured at 6 stns, 2.2 to 8.7 °C;
estimated range -1-10.9 °C.
Breeding: Ovigerous females have been taken in
January, April and June.
Water masses: AW (71 stns), AW/AI (7 stns),
AW/AI/NW (1 stn) and AI/NW (1 stn).
Atlantic distribution: From the southern Barents Sea