Parapleustes Buchholz, 1874

Lörz, Anne-Nina & Tandberg, Anne Helene S., 2025, North Atlantic Pleustidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with a focus on cold-water coral associations, European Journal of Taxonomy 1009, pp. 1-50 : 23-24

Genus Parapleustes Buchholz, 1874

Parapleustes Buchholz, 1874: 337 .

Incisocalliope J.L. Barnard in Barnard & Reish, 1959: 22.

Parapleustes – Barnard 1969: 425. — Gurjanova 1972: 131. — Lincoln 1979: 428. — Barnard & Karaman 1991: 649. — Bousfield & Hendrycks 1994: 41.

Type species

Parapleustes gracilis ( Buchholz, 1874) .

The genus Parapleustes contains 12 known species ( Horton et al. 2024): P. americanus Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1995 ; P. assimilis (G.O. Sars, 1883) ; P. bicuspis ( Krøyer, 1838) ; P. gracilis ( Buchholz, 1874) ; P. ishimarui Bousfield & Hendrycks, 1995 ; P. major ( Bulyčeva, 1952) ; P. mielcki ( Sokolowsky, 1925) ; P. monocuspis (G.O. Sars, 1893) ; P. sinuipalmus Dunbar, 1954 ; P. trianguloculatus ( Bulyčeva, 1952) ; P. tricuspis Ishimaru, 1984 .

The separation of the genera Parapleustes and Pleustes has been considered subjective ( Barnard & Given 1960: 39).

Diagnosis

A detailed diagnosis of the genus Parapleustes is provided by Ishimaru (1984).

Distribution

North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Arctic.