Amundsen Basin, Arctic Ocean, Canada Basin, European waters (ERMS scope), FAO fishing area 18, FAO fishing area 67, Makarov Ridge, Nansen Basin, North East Pacific, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone

Arctic species. Central Arctic Basin, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Laptev Sea, Greenland Sea, Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, Gulf of Maine

Female: Cephalothorax with widened front third, head fused with thorax, rounded from side view. Posterior corners of the last thoracic segment short, divergent, end before the middle of genital segment. Abdomen is 2.3-2 times shorter cephalothorax, the genital segment is slightly shorter than the combined length of the next 2 segments. Ventral projection very slight. The back edges of the first three segments with serrations. A1 reach the middle of the second abdominal segment. Endopodite of A2 almost 2 times shorter than the exopodite. The outer edge of the second basipodite of P1 with a small spine. Posterior corners of the last thoracic segment. Apical spines of exopodites of P1-P4 coarsely and sharply serrated.

Male: Smaller than female. P5 with no signs of endopodites, each leg five-segmented. A1 about as long as the cephalothorax.

Female: 3,50-4,60 mm
Male: 2,90-3,3 mm

Endopodite of P2 one-segmented. Abdomen longer than 1/3 of cephalothorax. Posterior corners of the last thoracic segment short, divergent. Spermatheca much smaller than in other species of the genus. Male with uniramous P5, the right is longer than the left.

Depth range based on 104 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 77 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 1090
  Temperature range (°C): -1.665 - 2.064
  Nitrate (umol/L): 0.485 - 14.762
  Salinity (PPS): 25.839 - 34.955
  Oxygen (ml/l): 6.264 - 9.185
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.467 - 1.717
  Silicate (umol/l): 4.913 - 33.592

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 0 - 1090

Temperature range (°C): -1.665 - 2.064

Nitrate (umol/L): 0.485 - 14.762

Salinity (PPS): 25.839 - 34.955

Oxygen (ml/l): 6.264 - 9.185

Phosphate (umol/l): 0.467 - 1.717

Silicate (umol/l): 4.913 - 33.592
 
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Oceanic, epi-meso-bathypelagic species. In polar water found at small depths and near the surface, in lower latitudes at depths of 200-800 m.

Opprotunistic omnivores; mainly feed phytoplankton and/or phytodetritus, but may also consume microzooplankton and copepod nauplii

Produce egg-sacs with a thick enclosing membrane, which contains 25-50 bright orange eggs.