First record of Carangoliopsis spinulosa Ledoyer, 1970 (Amphipoda: Carangoliopsidae) in the bathyal Israeli Mediterranean waters

Abstract

The occurrence of a carangoliopsid amphipod species in the bathyal eastern Mediterranean Sea is herein presented. The species Carangoliopsis spinulosa Ledoyer, 1970 belongs to a monotypic genus. Information about this species and its depth distribution is scattered as C. spinulosa has been recorded a few times. It is distributed in the Atlantic-Mediterranean region, recorded in the deep-sea habitat and it was not been documented with a relevant abundance further east than the Turkish coast.