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DECAPODA NATANTIA (CRUSTACEA) IN THE FAROE AREA
»Michael Sars«: Stn 45 (6 July 1902), 62° 17’ N, 4°
57’ W, 265 m; Stn 85 (28 August 1902), 62° 53’ N, 9°
06’ W, 450 m, 3.98 °C (Grieg, 1927). »Dana« Stn
5840 (14 May 1938), 62° 44’ N, 6° 06’ W, 330 m, one
specimen; Stn 6001 (27 July 1938), 63° 33’ N, 11° 25’
W, 317 m, 6 specimens; Stn 6009 (26 July 1938), 61°
14’ N, 7° 04’ W, 220 m, 2 specimens; Stn 6017 (30
July 1938), 62° 02’ N, 5° 13’ W, 220 m, 5 specimens;
Stn 6229 (11 August 1939), 63° 00.3’ N, 9° 30’ W,
495-500 m, 2 specimens. »Hvidbjømen«: Stn 6 (10
January 1979), 61° 25.3’ N, 5° 29.8’ W, 195 m, 11
specimens; Stn 24 (21 January 1979), 61° 00.3’ N, 8°
48.9’ W, 105-100 m, 4 specimens (Rømer, 1991).
BIOFAR stations: 6, 10, 15, 19, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 41,
44, 49, 51, 62, 65, 100, 115,117, 119,120, 170, 171,
172, 174,175, 233, 234, 266, 282, 283, 287, 288, 333,
334, 353, 354, 356, 359, 380, 382, 390, 401, 411, 417,
424,427, 452, 453,458, 475, 483, 562, 602, 604, 713,
714, 717, 727, 747, 750, 756, 758, 765, 766, 767,
9015, 9016, 9018.
Areas: Faroe Bank, the Faroe plateau and the top and
southern slope of Faroe-Iceland Ridge (Fig. 39).
Depth range: 105-894 m.
Temperature: measured at 17 stns, -0.63 to 7.7 °C;
estimated range -1 - 9.6 °C.
Breeding: Ovigerous females have been taken in April
and October.
Water masses: AW (36 stns), AW/AI (20 stns), NW
(10 stns), AI (9 stns) and AI/NW (4 stns).
Atlantic distribution: From western Svalbard and
eastem Kola Peninsula to Skagerrak; the Faroes;
Iceland (Stephensen, 1939); in the western Atlantic
from West Greenland at ca. 66° 30’ N to about 45° N
in Gulf of Maine, USA (Stephensen, 1935).
Atlantic depth range: 50-894 m (Christiansen, 1972),
hyperbenthic.
Fig. 41. Sclerocrangon boreas (Phipps) (adults ØJuveniles ▲) and S.ferox (G.O. Sars) (■) in the Faroe area.
Mynd 41. Sclerocrangon boreas (Phipps) (vaksin •, ungdýr ▲) and S.ferox (G.O. Sars) (■) í føroyskum øki.