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Some Amphipoda, Isopoda and Tanaidacea from Cook Strait

Family Phoxocephalidae

Family Phoxocephalidae

Heterophoxus stephenseni Schellenberg, 1931.

Heterophoxus stephenseni Hurley, 1954: 589–593, figs. 2967.

Material Examined: Station CUF (VUZ. 19), 2 females, 5 mm.

Distribution: Cook Strait; Otago Harbour; Auckland Islands.

Discussion: For the sake of consistency, I am referring these species to Heterophoxus stephenseni Schellenberg, under which name I have previously described New Zealand specimens. However, Dr. J. L. Barnard (personal communication) has advised me that the New Zealand specimens, which agree very well with Schellenberg's published description of H. stephenseni, differ from the type specimens in a number of details not mentioned by Schellenberg. Since Dr. Barnard is monographing this family of Gammaridea, I prefer to leave it for him to make the final assessment of the New Zealand species.