Eurythenes thurstoni: Brief Summary
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Eurythenes thurstoni is a species of amphipod of the genus Eurythenes. It was first described in 2004 and named after Mike Thurston, a marine biologist specialising in deep-sea amphipods.
E. thurstoni is found in the west South Pacific Ocean and the North and South Atlantic. It can grow up to 46mm long, making it the smallest species of Eurythenes.
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Depth range
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Continental slope to lower abyssal (200 to 7000 m) 400 to 4670 m.
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Distribution
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South Atlantic (Quadra et al. 2014), Australia, Indonesia, Loyalty Islands Basin, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Tonga, Tasman Sea, South Tasmania, New Zealand, Gulf of Mexico, Guadeloupe, 550–1960 m, exceptionally as shallow as 128 m (Stoddart & Lowry 2004). Barnard (1961) records E. thurstoni under the name E. gryllus at much deeper (abyssal) stations (Stoddart & Lowry 2004), but it is possible that they were mesopelagic or upper bathypelagic specimens caught when the trawl was hauled up.
D'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Havermans, C. (2015). Contribution to the systematics of the genus Eurythenes S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Eurytheneidae). Zootaxa. 3971(1): 1-80.
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