Lörz, A.-N.; Coleman, C.O. (2013) The marine fauna of New Zealand and the Ross Sea: Amphipoda, Synopiidae (Crustacea). Wellington, NZ: NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 127, 160 p.
Abstract
The amphipod family Synopiidae of the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the Ross Sea is monographed. Previously only one species of Synopiidae, Syrrhoe cf. affinis, has been formally recorded from the New Zealand EEZ and two species from the Ross Sea, Syrrhoe tuberculata Dahl, 1954 and Syrrhoites anaticauda K.H. Barnard, 1930. Thirteen of the 17 species of Synopiidae described in detail in this monograph are new to science. Eleven species from five genera are from the New Zealand EEZ and six species belonging to four genera are from the Ross Sea. The genus Austrosyrrhoe K.H. Barnard, 1925 is represented by one species new to science from the Chatham Rise, east of New Zealand, Austrosyrrhoe kathleenae n. sp. The genus Bruzelia Boeck, 1871 is represented by three species new to science, all from the Chatham Rise: Bruzelia erikae n. sp., B. junkeri n. sp., B. vogeli n. sp. The genus Ileraustroe J.L. Barnard, 1972 now comprises three species, and the New Zealand species new to science, Ileraustroe neumannae n. sp., was collected on the Chatham Rise and the Challenger Plateau, east and west of New Zealand. The genus Pseudotiron Chevreux, 1895 is recorded for the first time in Antarctica, where it is represented by Pseudotiron livingstonae n. sp. in abyssal depth of the Ross Sea. The genus Syrrhoe Goës, 1866 is represented by Syrrhoe cf. affinis Chevreux, 1908 and S. sadiae n. sp. from New Zealand waters and by S. cf. oluta J.L. Barnard, 1972 and S. kareenae n. sp. from the western Ross Sea. The genus Syrrhoites Sars, 1895 is represented by four new species from New Zealand waters: Syrrhoites ebberae n. sp., S. hannahae n. sp., S. octodentata n. sp., and S. renatae n. sp., and two species from the Ross Sea S. anaticauda, K.H. Barnard, 1930 and S. bowdeni n. sp. The species Tiron antarcticus K.H. Barnard, 1932, which has been recorded previously from the Weddell Sea and the Bransfield Strait, is here represented by new records for the Ross Sea. Dichotomous keys to world genera and species of Synopiidae are provided; an interactive identification key of Synopiidae can be found at http://amphipod.dnsalias.net.
