Hyperietta Bowman, 1973

Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2004, A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), Zootaxa 567, pp. 1-66 : 34

Genus Hyperietta Bowman, 1973

Remarks

Bowman (1973) recognised five species, three of which he described as new. Very little is known about their biology. Harbison et al. (1997) and Laval (1980) have found Hyperietta associated with polycystine radiolarians of the suborder Collodaria , and Brandt (1885) recorded hyperiids assigned to Hyperia , but referable to Hyperietta , as parasites of the radiolarians Myxosphaera coerula and Collozoum pelagicum .

Distributional information for the species is provided by Bowman (1973), Bowman and McGuinness (1982), Vinogradov et al. (1982) and Zeidler (1998).

Species: Hyperietta luzoni ( Stebbing, 1888) ; H. vosseleri ( Stebbing, 1904) ; H. parviceps Bowman, 1973 ; H. stebbingi Bowman, 1973 ; H. stephenseni Bowman, 1973 .