On the genus Halirages (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with the description of two new species from Scandinavia and Arctic Europe

A new common deep-sea species of Halirages Boeck, 1871 closely related to H.qvadridentatus G.O. Sars, 1877, H.cainae sp. nov., is described after specimens collected in the Norwegian Sea during the MAREANO 2009-111 cruise. Examination of the syntypes of H. elegans Norman, 1882 demonstrates that Norman's species is a junior synonym of H.qvadridentatus G.O. Sars, 1877 and that the species usually named H.elegans in literature was actually undescribed. The name H.stappersi sp. nov. is proposed for that species. A key to and a checklist of Halirages species is given

The macro- and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of the eastern Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

In 2008 the BIOPEARL II expedition on board of RRS James Clark Ross sailed to the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment and Pine Island Bay, one of the least studied Antarctic continental shelf regions due to its remoteness and ice cover. A total of 37 Agassiz trawls were deployed at depth transects along the continental and trough slopes. A total of 5,469 specimens, belonging to 32 higher taxonomic groups and more than 270 species, were collected. Species richness per station varied from 1–55. The benthic assemblages were dominated by echinoderms and clearly different to those in the Ross, Scotia and Weddell seas. Here we present the macro- and megafaunal assemblage structure, its species richness and the presence of several undescribed species

Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

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Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016

Halirages nilssoni Ohlin 1895

<p> <b> <i>Halirages nilssoni</i> Ohlin, 1895</b> </p> <p>Baffin Bay, 9-30 m (Ohlin 1895; Stebbing 1906; Gurjanova 1951); Bernard Harbour (Shoemaker 1920); Hudson Bay (Atkinson & Wacasey 1989); Siberian Arctic Ocean, Pitlekaj (Oldevig 1959); Laptev Sea</p> <p> (Tzvetkova & Golikov 1990); Hudson Bay, Estuary and Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Brunel <i>et al.</i> 1998); Barents, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi Seas (Sirenko 2001); Hudson Strait and Foxe Basin (Stewart & Lockhart 2005). Recorded between 9 and 54 m (Gurjanova 1964).</p>Published as part of <i>D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem, 2012, On the genus Halirages (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with the description of two new species from Scandinavia and Arctic Europe, pp. 1-32 in European Journal of Taxonomy 7</i> on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.7, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3857937">http://zenodo.org/record/3857937</a&gt

Halirages stappersi D'Acoz, 2012, sp. nov.

<p> <b> <i>Halirages stappersi</i> sp. nov.</b> </p> <p>Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, Svalbard, South of Jan Mayen, North of Faeroe Islands, Northern and Western Iceland, 207 to 1384- 1435 m (see descriptive account).</p>Published as part of <i>D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem, 2012, On the genus Halirages (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with the description of two new species from Scandinavia and Arctic Europe, pp. 1-32 in European Journal of Taxonomy 7</i> on page 28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.7, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3857937">http://zenodo.org/record/3857937</a&gt

Halirages qvadridentatus G. O. Sars 1877

<p> <b> <i>Halirages qvadridentatus</i> G.O. Sars, 1877</b> </p> <p>Atlantic sector of Arctic and subarctic Seas, 425-1435 m (see descriptive account).</p>Published as part of <i>D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem, 2012, On the genus Halirages (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with the description of two new species from Scandinavia and Arctic Europe, pp. 1-32 in European Journal of Taxonomy 7</i> on page 28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.7, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3857937">http://zenodo.org/record/3857937</a&gt

Halirages mixtus Stephensen 1931

<p> <b> <i>Halirages mixtus</i> Stephensen, 1931</b> </p> <p>East Greenland, shallow water (Stephensen 1931); Ungava Bay, Canadian Eastern Arctic, in plankton samples (Dunbar 1954); Beaufort Sea, in plankton (Horner & Murphy 1985); Hudson Strait (Stewart & Lockhart 2005); Spitsbergen, 10-20 m (Oldevig 1959); Kara and Laptev Seas (Sirenko 2001).</p>Published as part of <i>D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem, 2012, On the genus Halirages (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with the description of two new species from Scandinavia and Arctic Europe, pp. 1-32 in European Journal of Taxonomy 7</i> on page 27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.7, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3857937">http://zenodo.org/record/3857937</a&gt