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Bathypallenopsis scoparia Fage 1956

Description

Bathypallenopsis scoparia (Fage, 1956)

Pallenopsis scoparia Fage, 1956, 171-172; figs 1-4. Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 135 (key), 140–141; fig. 7C. Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) scoparia Bamber, 2002, 719-720; fig. 2.

Bathypallenopsis scoparia Bamber, 2010, 184-185; fig. 216.

Material. Solomon Islands: 13 (MNHN-IU-2007-4739), station CP2250, 07°29.2’S 156°16.7’E, XI 2004, depth 845–970 m, Ile Salomon. Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.

Remarks. A widely-distributed and quite distinctive species, known from the north-east Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Bahamas, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and thr Peru-Chile Trench, in a depth range of 400 to 1520 m (Bamber, 2010). This, the first record from Melanesian waters, is the second recorded male.

Notes

Published as part of Bamber, Roger N, 2011, The male of Ascorhynchus constrictus Stock, 1997 (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida), with further new records of deep-sea pycnogonids from New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2787 on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201969

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pallenopsidae
Genus
Bathypallenopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Pantopoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fage
Species
scoparia
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bathypallenopsis scoparia Fage, 1956 sec. Bamber, 2011

References

  • Fage, L. (1956) Les Pycnogonides (excl. le genre Nymphon). Galathea Reports, 2, 167 - 182.
  • Bamber, R. N. & Thurston, M. H. (1995) The deep-water pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115, 117 - 162.
  • Bamber, R. N. (2002) Bathypelagic pycnogonids (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from the Discovery deep-sea cruises. Journal of Natural History, 36, 715 - 727.