Cyphocaris anonyx Boeck, 1871

Springthorpe, Roger T. & Hughes, Lauren E., 2025, Alexandrella wimdecocki sp. nov. (Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908) and new records for three Australian Abyssal Amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida), Zootaxa 5636 (3), pp. 538-550 : 540-541

Cyphocaris anonyx Boeck, 1871

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Cyphocaris anonyx Boeck, 1871: 104 .— Boeck, 1872: 141, pl. 6 fig. 1.— Stuxberg, 1880: 62.— Sars, 1886: 39.— Hansen, 1888: 66.— Della Valle, 1893: 846 (key), 847.— Walker, 1903: 233, pl. 18 fig. 14.— Fowler, 1904: 47.— Stebbing, 1904: 14.— Stebbing, 1906: 29.— Tattersall, 1906: 28.— Strauss, 1909: 9, 69, pl. 6 figs 39−42.— Stephensen, 1912: 613.— Stephensen, 1913: 111.— Stephensen, 1915: 37.— Chevreux, 1916: 2, 6 (key).— Stephensen, 1923: 50, chart 9.— Schellenberg, 1926a: 243.— Schellenberg, 1926b:210,figs 2b, 5a,b, pl.5 fig.2.— Schellenberg,1927:662, fig.57.— Pirlot, 1929:5.— Schellenberg, 1929: 195.—K.H. Barnard, 1932: 36.— Stephensen, 1932: 354.— Pirlot, 1933: 127.— Stephensen, 1933: 4.— Chevreux, 1935: 18, 21 (key), pl. 1 figs 1, 2, pl. 4 fig. 3.— Stephensen, 1935: 42, fig. 3 (1).—K.H. Barnard, 1937: 142.—K.H. Barnard, 1940: 440.— Thorsteinson, 1941: 57 (key).— Stephensen, 1942: 470.— Shoemaker, 1945: 187, fig. 1 A, B.— Gurjanova, 1951: 177, fig. 51B.—J.L. Barnard, 1954: 53.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1955: 212, fig. 1.— Schellenberg, 1955: 185, 191.—J.L. Barnard, 1958: 91.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1958: 220.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1960a: 168.— Fraser, 1961: 16, 43 (appendix table 1).— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1962: 34.— Gurjanova, 1962: 65 (key), 69, fig. 9.— Kane, 1962: 298.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1963: 83.— Hurley, 1963: 24 (key), 25.— Birstein & Vinogradov, 1964: 154.—J.L. Barnard, 1967: 55.— Brusca, 1967: 385.— O’Riordan, 1969: 32.— Sanderson, 1973: 35.— Sanger, 1974: 3, tables 2, 3.— Griffiths, 1975: 144.—Mauchline & Ballantyne, 1975: 346, 354, figs 1, 5.— Griffiths, 1976: 58 (key), fig. 32E.— Lowry & Bullock, 1976: 87.— Thurston, 1976: 367, figs 2–5, tables 2, 3, 5.— Herring, 1981: 170.— Austin, 1985: 600.— Costello et al., 1989: 32.— Vinogradov, 1990: 39.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 480.— Gonzalez, 1991: 58.— Palerud & Vader, 1991: 34.— Andres et al., 1992: 185 (table 1).— Gislason & Astthorsson, 1992: 221.— De Broyer & Jazdzewski, 1993: 67.— Lopes et al., 1993: 209.— Vinogradov, 1999: 1162, fig. 4.10.— Thurston, 2001: 684 (table 2).— Dauvin & Bellan-Santini, 2002: 315 (table 1).— Vinogradov, 2004: 51.— De Broyer et al., 2007: 119.— Hughes & Lowry, 2015: 6 , figs 4–8.

Cyphocaris micronyx Stebbing, 1888: 656 , pl. 16.— Della Valle, 1893: 846 (key), 847.— Chevreux, 1900: 165, pl. 14 fig. 11.— Thurston & Allen, 1969: 358.

Not Cyphocaris micronyx .— Della Valle, 1893: pl. 60 figs 55−57 (= C. challengeri ).

Not Cyphocaris anonyx .— Chilton, 1912: 464, pl. 1 figs 1−4 (= C. richardi ).

Type material. Neotype, female, 13 mm, 7 slides, AM P.35581, south-west Greenland, North Atlantic Ocean (61°47'N 52°55'W), 3000 m, 9 July 1925, coll. S. Jensen, RV Dana (Station 2401).

Material examined. 1 specimen, AM P.100470, Jervis Commonwealth Marine Reserve, New South Wales (35°07'00"S 151°28'23"E to 35°05'57"S 151°27'17"E), 4026− 3881 m, 28 May 2017, Brenke Epibenthic Sledge, coll. L.E. Hughes, F. Koehler, E.K. Kupriyanova, RV Investigator (IN2017_ V03 _054) ; 1 specimen, AM P.100469, off Bermagui , New South Wales (36°21'37"S 150°38'37"E to 36°19'24"S 150°39'01"E), 2835− 2739 m, 27 May 2017, Brenke Epibenthic Sledge, coll. L.E. Hughes, F. Koehler, E.K. Kupriyanova, RV Investigator (IN2017_ V03 _ 045) ; 1 specimen, AM P.100468, Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve, Tasmania (40°27'47"S 149°24'54"E to 40°27'40"S 149°21'59"E), 4129−4131 m, 21 May 2017, Brenke Epibenthic Sledge, coll. L.E. Hughes, F. Koehler, E.K. Kupriyanova, RV Investigator (IN2017_ V03 _016) ; 2 specimens, AM P.100471, Bass Strait (39°27'43"S 149°16'37"E to 39°27'54"S 149°14'46"E), 2744– 2694 m, 22 May 2017, Brenke Epibenthic Sledge, coll. L.E. Hughes, F. Koehler, E.K. Kupriyanova, RV Investigator (IN2017_ V03 _023) .

Remarks. The material from the RV Investigator provides additional records for Australian waters and are within the considerable existing range for C. anonyx .

Depth. 2400–4200 m.

Distribution. Australia. Great Australian Bight. ( Birstein & Vinogradov 1962). Coral Sea: Cape Grenville ( Hughes & Lowry, 2015). Tasman Sea: Bass Strait; Flinders Marine Reserve, Off Bermagui ; Jervis Commonwealth Marine Reserve ( Hughes & Lowry, 2015; current study). For other extralimital geographic records see Hughes & Lowry, 2015: 6.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Map of Australian Abyssal Amphipods: A. Amathillopsis australis Stebbing, 1883; B. Cyphocaris anonyx Boeck, 1971; C. Octomana hadromischa Hendrycks & Conlan, 2003 and D. Alexandrella wimdecocki sp. nov.