Comprehensive Description
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Leucon nasicoides Lilljeborg
Leucon nasicoides Lilljeborg, 1855:122, 123.—G. O. Sars, 1900:31, 32, pl. 23.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.—45°29′00″N, 55°24′00″W (S of Newfoundland) 67 fms, 3 Jul 1885 (Albatross Sta 2466), 12, female and males.
EARLIER RECORDS IN THE REGION.—Same locality as above (Caiman, 1912). Eastport, Maine; Bay of Fundy; Gulf of St. Lawrence (Smith, 1879); Gulf of St. Lawrence (Whiteaves, 1901). Mount Desert region, Maine, blue clay, 37 fms (Proctor, 1933).
OTHER LOCALITIES.—Baltic Sea, Skagerrak, Norwegian coasts, Novaya Zemlya, Spitzbergen, Iceland, eastern and western Greenland, Kamchatka; shallow water to 125 fms.
- bibliographic citation
- Zimmer, Carl Wilhelm Erich. 1979. "Cumaceans of the American Atlantic boreal coast region (Crustacea, Peracarida)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.302
