“…The family Argestidae, composed of 18 genera, is a typical deep-sea taxon (Hicks and Coull 1983, Huys and Conroy-Dalton 1997, George 2004) commonly found in muddy substrates, where it is one of the dominant harpacticoid taxa (Hicks and Coull 1983, George 2004, 2008, Menzel and George 2009, Menzel 2011a). Yet, some species of Argestes Sars, 1910, Argestigens Willey, 1935, Corallicletodes Soyer, 1966, Dizahavia Por, 1979, Eurycletodes , Fultonia Scott, 1902, Mesocletodes , and Parargestes Lang, 1944 have been reported from depths ranging from a few meters (e.g., 4.5 m for Dizahavia
halophila Por, 1979, 35 m for Corallicletodes
boutieri Soyer, 1966, 20 m for Eurycletodes (Oligocletodes) parasimilis, to less than 200 m (e.g., 91.44 m for Eurycletodes (O.) aculeatus (50 fathoms, not 50 m as in George (2004)), 150 m for Argestigens
glacialis Lang, 1936, 180 m for Eurycletodes (O.) denticulatus, 60 m–120 m for Eurycletodes (Eurycletodes) laticauda) (for a complete list of depth range of the species of Argestidae and references see George (2004: 257–259, Table 2); for the genus Mesocletodes see Menzel et al (2011)).…”