Stenothoe cattai Stebbing, 1906

Krapp-Schickel, T., 2013, New or amended data on Mediterranean Amphipoda: genera Dexamine, Ericthonius and Stenothoe, Zootaxa 3613 (2), pp. 125-145 : 139-141

Stenothoe cattai Stebbing, 1906

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Probolium polyprion Catta, 1876: 15 pl. 2 fig. 1

Stenothoe cattai Stebbing 1906: 195 , Lincoln, 1979: 202 fig. 92

Stenothoe gallensis Krapp-Schickel, 1976: 15 , fig. 14–16; 1993: 701, fig. 481

non Stenothoe gallensis Walker, 1904: 261 , pl. 3, fig. 19

non S. cattai Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 132 , fig. 131 (see S. eduardi Krapp-Schickel, 1976 ) Type locality: Stebbing writes only "Mediterranean", but as he bases his new species on Probolium polyprion of Catta, he could have informed what was written there: Catta's material came from epiphytes on the keel of a ship in the harbour of Marseille.

Material examined: male 3.5 mm slide MVRCr 7614 from Capo Molini, 1.5m depth, Sicila, Oct. 1975 Krapp-Schickel coll., leg.

In alcohol (all coll. Krapp-Schickel and deposited at the Verona Museum): 13 males, female, juv. Cala Dragonara , Aglaophenia 0.5m depth, Sardegna, Italy , without date; 20 males, females, juv. Rovinj, Isola Katarina near cave, coralligène 0.5m, 28. 7. 1992, Kroatia ; 4 fem., juv., Rovinj, Isola Katarina, Halopteris scoparia 0.7 – 2m depth, July 1992, Kroatia ; 40 males, females, juv. Capo Taormina, Cystoseira stricta 1m depth, 5.7. 1990, Sicilia, Italy ;> 50 fem., juv., Ganzirri, Messina, from Zostera , July 1971, Sicilia, Italy ;> 20 fem. juv. Capo S. Andrea, Taormina, 5m depth, 6.7.1990; Sicilia, Italy ; 36 males, female, juv. Capo Molini, Catania, 1.5m depth, Padina, Halimeda, Oct. 1975 , Sicilia, Italy ; 1 fem. Capo Molini, Catania, 28 m depth, Sicilia, Italy ;> 30 fem., juv. Cystoseira , 1.5–2.5m depth, Roquetas Puerto , Gulf of Almeria, Spain , August 1976; 14 fem., juv. Aguadulce , Padina pavonia, Gulf of Almeria, Spain , August 1976;> 60 males, fem., juv., 2 km SW Banyuls , mixed algae on surface, 12.8. 1992; France .

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FIGURE 11. Stenothoe cattai Stebbing, 1906 habitus male, from Messina. Photo by Francesco Costa.