Little Known Amphipoda From the Clyde Deeps

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During a recent preliminary survey of the Clyde deeps using a 0–5 m D-net (mesh ca. 1 mm, 26 mesh per inch), three little known species of Amphipoda were collected. Amphilochoides boecki Sars (Amphilochidae) was taken over a consolidated sand Dentalium ground inside Sgat Mhor, Ascog Bay, Lower L. Fyne on 3 July 1980 from a depth of 36 m. This species has been recognized as distinct from A. serratipes (Norman) by Lincoln (1979) who noted that no British material of A. boecki had been confirmed to date. This therefore represents the first British record of the species. Eriopisa elongata (Bruzelius) (Melitidae) was taken from 150 m between Cumbrae and Arran in the Clyde in 1885 by Canon A. M. Norman. Earlier (1866) dredgings with Gwyn Jeffreys in the Sound of Skye had first brought this species to light in British waters (Norman, 1889). I am not aware of any published record of E. elongata in the Clyde area since that time and it is not known from anywhere else in Britain (Lincoln, 1979). The species (two individuals) was taken in 118 m over a soft mud bottom off Holy Isle (Arran) on 3 July 1980. Dyopedos monacanthus (Metzger) (Podoceridae) has been taken once previously in the Clyde, from the stomach of a haddock in 1897 (Scott, 1901 as Dulichia monacantha Metzger), a record not included in Lincoln's (1979) latest review. Two individuals were captured on 2 July 1980, over soft mud, from 183 m off Tarbert, Lower L. Fyne.