Diastylis bispinosa

Author
Stimpson, 1853

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Min Depth
0 meters
Max Depth
20 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Gulf of Mexico?, Northwest Atlantic
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • soft substrate (muds, sands, clays)
  • inner continental shelf (<100 m)
  • outer continental shelf (101–200 m)
  • slope
References

  • Sars, G. O. 1871a. Nya arter af Cumacea samlade under K. Svenska Korvetten Josephines Expedition i Atlantiska Oceanen år 1869 af F. A. Smitt och A. Ljungman. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 28(1): 71–81.

  • Stimpson, W. 1853. Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 6: 1–66.

  • Zimmer, C. 1944. Cumaceen des tropischen Westatlantiks. Zoologischer Anzeiger 144(7–8): 121–137.

  • Zimmer, C. 1980. Cumaceans of the American Atlantic boreal coast region (Crustacea: Peracarida). T. E. Bowman and L. Watling, eds. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 302: 1–29.

Endnotes

  • Diastylis bispinosa is abundant from Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras, between 2 m and 348 m. The record of its occurrence off the Florida Keys (Zimmer 1944, 1980) is questionable. Diastylis quadrispinosa Sars, 1871, is a junior synonym.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Heard, R. W. and D. Roccatagliata. 2009. Cumacea (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1001–1011 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-12-2024.

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