''Bentheuphausia amblyops'', the deep sea krill is a species of
krill
Krill are small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, and are found in all the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian word ', meaning "small fry of fish", which is also often attributed to species of fish.
Krill are consi ...
. ''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
Krill are small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, and are found in all the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian word ', meaning "small fry of fish", which is also often attributed to species of fish.
Krill are consid ...
.
Distribution
''B. amblyops'' occurs in the northern
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...
in
latitude
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s south of
40° N, and also in the southern seas of the Atlantic, in the
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by t ...
and in the
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
.
It is a
bathypelagic krill that lives in deep waters below .
Description
It is distinguished from the Euphausiidae by several morphological features, the most apparent being that they are not
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 .
References
External links
Distribution data set of ''Bentheuphausia ambylops''fro
OBIS
{{Taxonbar, from=Q11841665
Krill
Monotypic crustacean genera