Bentheuphausia

Taxobox
name = "Bentheuphausia amblyops"


image_width = 200px
image_caption = after "Mauchline 1971"; after "Sars 1885"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Euphausiacea
familia = Bentheuphausiidae
familia_authority = Colosi, 1917
genus = "Bentheuphausia"
genus_authority = G. O. Sars, 1885
species = "B. amblyops"
binomial = "Bentheuphausia amblyops"
binomial_authority = G. O. Sars, 1883

"Bentheuphausia amblyops" is a species of krill, small shrimp-like crustaceans living in the ocean.

"B. amblyops" is the only species within its genus, which in turn is the only genus within the family Bentheuphausiidae. All the 85 other species of krill known are classified in the family Euphausiidae.

"B. amblyops" occurs in the northern Atlantic Ocean in latitudes south of 40° N, and also in the southern seas of the Atlantic, in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific. It is a bathypelagic krill that lives in deep waters below 1,000 m. It is distinguished from the Euphausiidae by several morphological features, the most apparent being that they are "not" bioluminescent and that their first pair of pleopods is "not" modified as copulatory tool organs. Also, their eyes are smaller than those of the Euphausiidae. Adults reach a length of 4 to 5 cm.

References

* [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=95499 Taxonomy of "Bentheuphausia amblyops"] from ITIS.
* [http://www.marine.csiro.au/cgi-bin/cs_map.pl?csq=7000:459:2|7101:209:2|7101:209:4|7101:219:2|7102:100:1|7102:100:3|7301:394:2|7301:394:4|7301:495:1|7301:495:3|7302:215:1|7303:122:3|7303:353:1|7306:113:4|7401:104:4|7401:134:3|7401:353:4|7401:354:3|7401:479:1|7401:479:2|7513:236:3&title=OBIS%20stored%20distribution%20-%20%3Ci%3EBentheuphausia%20amblyops%3C/i%3E Distribution data set of "Bentheuphausia ambylops"] from [http://www.iobis.org/IndexSearch?category=IArCrME&names=all OBIS] .
* [http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=MALACOSTRACA;pstrTaxa=8096;pstrChecklistMode=1 Australian Faunal Directory entry for "Bentheuphausia amblyops"] .
*Mauchline, J.: [http://www.ices.dk/products/fiche/Plankton/SHEET134.PDF Euphausiacea: "Adults"] , Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, 1971.
*Sars, G. O.: "Bentheuphausia amblyops", in "Rep. scient. Results Voyage H.M.S. Challenger 1873-76", 13(3), 1885.