Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 117 1965 Number 3512 



HAUSTORIIDAE OF NEW ENGLAND 

 (CRUSTACEA: AMPHIPODA) 



By E. L. BousFiELD ' 



Introduction 



The family Haustoriidae embraces a heterogeneous group of 

 gammaridean amphipods that are variously adapted for burrowing 

 and filtering minute food particles from the substratum. 



Partly because of their restricted ecology, fossorial habits, and 

 small size, relatively few of these remarkable crustaceans were 

 described or recorded from American-Atlantic and New England 

 waters by early carcinologists. Holmes (1904) recorded Pontoporeia 

 Jemorata Kr0yer from "somewhere on the New England coast" and 

 amplified the earlier records of Smith (1874, 1880) for "Haustoriibs 

 arenarius" (Slabber) in the Cape Cod region, Paulmier (1905) and 

 Kunkel (1918) recorded and figured this European species from coastal 

 waters of New York City and the state of Connecticut, respectively. 

 The writer (1962b) tentatively synonymized Paulmier's species with 

 Haustorius canadensis, newly described from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 and simultaneously (1962b) diagnosed a further species, Haustorius 

 sfinosus, from shore localities in the Bay of Fundy. 



A number of other haustoriid species, recorded or described from 

 the Bay of Fundy and elsewhere in eastern Canada, were believed to 



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