Thorina

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{for|the thorium compound|thorium dioxide}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | taxon = Thorina | authority = Stephensen, 1944 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *{{nowrap|''Thorina elongata'' <small>Laubnitz & Mills, 1972</small>}} *''Thorina spinosa'' <small>Stephensen, 1944</small> }}

'''''Thorina''''' is a genus of amphipod crustaceans comprising the two species ''Thorina spinosa'' and ''Thorina elongata''.<ref>{{Cite WoRMS |author=Jim Lowry |year=2010 |title=''Thorina'' Stephensen, 1944 |id=431088 |accessdate=December 2, 2011}}</ref> They are deep-sea species, found at depths of {{convert|900|m}} and {{convert|1500|-|4892|m|abbr=on}}, respectively, in the North Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean.<ref>{{cite journal |author=José Manual Guerra-García |year=2003 |title=Two new species of deep-water caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from northeastern Brazil |journal=Cahiers de Biologie Marine |volume=44 |pages=171–184 |url=http://personal.us.es/jmguerra/pdfs/pdf27.pdf }}</ref>

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==External links== *{{cite web |url=http://caprellids.lifedesks.org/taxonomy/term/699 |title=''Thorina'' Stephensen, 1944 |author=Gail Ashton |work=Caprellids |date=January 15, 2010 |publisher=LifeDesks}}

Category:Corophiida Category:Amphipod genera Category:Amphipods of the Atlantic Ocean