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Alexandrella haubeni Deep-sea amphipod

Alexandrella haubeni is commonly referred to as Deep-sea amphipod. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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Fundort: Clarion-Clipperton-Bruchzone, Zentralpazifik

Habitus of Alexandrella haubeni, Maßstab: 1 mm
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lexID:
18511 
AphiaID:
Scientific:
Alexandrella haubeni 
German:
Tiefsee-Amphipode 
English:
Deep-sea Amphipod 
Category:
Other Crustaceans 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Amphipoda (Order) > Stilipedidae (Family) > Alexandrella (Genus) > haubeni (Species) 
Initial determination:
Tandberg & Hughes, 2026 
Occurrence:
Central Pazific 
Marine Zone:
Abyssopelagial
The abyssopelagial ranges from 4000 to 6000 meters deep, here the temperature is close to freezing, the pressure is 400 to 600 times higher than at the surface and there is no sunlight. 
Sea depth:
- 4143 Meter 
Habitats:
Fracture zone in the oceanic crust, Marine / Salt Water 
Size:
0,3 cm 
Temperature:
°F - 1,18 °F (°C - 1,18°C) 
Food:
No reliable information available 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Alexandrella australis
  • Alexandrella dentata
  • Alexandrella mixta
  • Alexandrella subchelata
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2026-08-09 17:00:38 

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Alexandrella haubeni is a small deep-sea amphipod from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the northeastern Pacific, collected during the voyage of the R/V Thomas G. Thompson at a depth of over 4,000 meters. Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), also known as the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone

The collected specimen is a male ♂.

Alexandrella haubeni bears the closest resemblance to Alexandrella subchelata Holman & Watling, 1983, and Alexandrella setosa Serejo, 2014.

Etymology.
Named after Lawrence Hauben, who illustrated amphipods from the northeastern Pacific off the coast of California for Jerry Barnard in the 1960s.

Reference:
Tandberg AHS, Hughes LE (2026) Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908
(Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. In: Jażdżewska AM (Ed.) New deep-sea Amphipoda from Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
ZooKeys 1274: 17-34. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1274.141416

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

External links

  1. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/141416/element/7/0/Stilipedidae/ (en). Abgerufen am 30.07.2026.
  2. SeaLIfeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 30.07.2026.

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