First discovery of genus Arculfia J. L. BARNARD in the Mediterranean Sea, with remarks on two other members of family Pardaliscidae (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 156)

Abstract

      Three species of family Paradaliscidae are treated in this paper. The monotypic genus Arculfia J. L. B a r n a r d 1961), known only from deep sea waters of Tasman Sea in SW. Pacific, is found for the first time in the Mediterra­nean Sea, and a new subspecies, Arculfia trago mediterranea, n. ssp., is described from NW. part of Mediterranean Sea (off France, Canyon de Planier, 200—360 m depth). New diagnosis of genus Arculfia is composed. Some new taxo­nomic data od Paradaliscoides tenellus S t eb b i n g 1888 from Mediterranean Sea and some new localities of Paradaliscella boeckii (M a l m 1871) from Tyrrhenian Sea are presented.