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Bentheuphausia amblyops
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = ''Bentheuphausia amblyops''
| image = Bentheuphausia amblyops.png
| 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 =
Giuseppe Colosi Colosi,
1917
| genus = '''''Bentheuphausia'''''
| genus_authority =
Georg Sars 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 Ocean Pacific. It is a
pelagic 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''
bioluminescence 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
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Taxonomy of ''Bentheuphausia amblyops'' from
ITIS.
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Distribution data set of ''Bentheuphausia ambylops'' from [http://www.iobis.org/IndexSearch?category=IArCrME&names=all OBIS].
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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.
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Category:Krill
