Streetsia steenstrupi ( Bovallius, 1887 )

Gasca, Rebeca & Hendrickx, Michel E., 2022, Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) in western Mexico. 7 Superfamily Platysceloidea. Family Oxycephalidae, Zootaxa 5105 (2), pp. 219-236 : 230

Streetsia steenstrupi ( Bovallius, 1887)

Oxycephalus Steenstrupi Bovallius, 1887: 37 .

Streetsia steenstrupi .— Brusca, 1981: 13 (list), 33 (key), fig. 23c, j; Stebbing, 1888: 365 (key), 371; Vinogradov et al., 1996: 511 (key), 514‒516, fig. 223; García Madrigal, 2007: 158 (list); Gasca, 2009: 89 (tab. 1); Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 142 (tab. 1), 152 (appendix); Lavaniegos, 2014: 5 (tab. 1); Valencia et al., 2013: 52 (tab. 1); Zeidler, 2016: 93‒96 (passim), 96 (key).

Material examined. 2M in one locality ( Fig. 5 ).

TALUD IV. St. 15 (23°23’30”N, 107°47’48”W), August 24, 2000, 2M , MN from surface to 1500 m (TD, 2350 m) (ICML-EMU-12981) .

Distribution. Tropical and subtropical oceans. In the eastern Pacific from California to Panama ( Vinogradov et al. 1996, García Madrigal 2007, Valencia et al. 2013). Present in the SE Gulf of California (this study).

Remarks. The two males examined were young specimens (about 7 mm long). Both feature the characteristics of S. steenstrupi .

Not recorded previously by Siegel-Causey (1982) in the Gulf of California, Streetsia steenstrupi has been previously reported from the Mexican portion of the California Current ( Lavaniegos & Hereu 2009, Lavaniegos 2014). During our survey it was recorded only in one locality in the Gulf of California ( Fig. 5 ).

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FIGURE 5. Localities where Streetsia mindanaonis, S. porcella, and S. steenstrupi were collected during this survey.