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Colossendeis macerrima Wilson 1881

Description

Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, 1881

Hedgpeth, 1948, 273, fig. 50d (literature). Stock, 1979, 400–401; fig. 2 (literature). Nakamura & Child, 1991, 62 (synonymy). Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 144 (key), 148; fig. 9 D. Child 1995: 83–84. Child & Segonzac 1996: 674–675 (fig. 5, photo). Bamber, 2002, 720–723 (distinctions from C. minor and C. gardineri). Veena et al., 2008, 20, table 1. Bamber, 2010, 52– 53; fig. 89.

Material. New Caledonia: 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4748), station DW2076, 25°24’S 168°20’E, 27 X 2003, depth 618–700 m, Ride de Norfolk, Banc Zorro. S Samedi & Richer IRD coll. Solomon Islands: 2 specimens (MNHN-IU-2007-4749), station CP2176, 9°09.4’S 158°59.2’E, XI 2004, depth 600–875 m, Solomon Island, SW Russel. 3 specimens (MNHN-IU-2007-4750), station CP2182, 08°47.0’S 159°37.9’E, XI 2004, depth 762–1060 m, Santa Isabel. 2 specimens (MNHN-IU-2007-4751), station CP2195, 8°25.5’S 159°26.4’E, XI 2004, depth 543– 593 m, Solomon Island, SW Santa Isabel. 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4752), station CP2196, 8°25.6’S 159°25.9’E, XI 2004, depth 724–765 m, Solomon Island, SW Santa Isabel. 2 specimens (MNHN-IU-2007-4753) and 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4754), station CP2197, 8°24.4’S 159°22.5’E, 24 X 2004, depth 897–1057 m, Solomon Island. 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4755), station CP2218, 07°50.3’S 157°34.6’E, XI 2004, depth 582– 864 m, New Georgia. All Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.

Remarks. Colossendeis macerrima is a frequently-collected panoceanic species, recorded previously in the Melanesian region by Stock (1991 —Chesterfield Islands; 1997— Vanuatu) and Bamber (2004— Tonga).

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 61-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201969

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Colossendeidae
Genus
Colossendeis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Pantopoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wilson
Species
macerrima
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, 1881 sec. Bamber, 2011

References

  • Wilson, E. B. (1881) Report on the Pycnogonida. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, along the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the US Coast Survey Steamer " Blake, " Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. XIII. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 8 (12), 239 - 256; Pls I - V.
  • Hedgpeth, J. W. (1948) The Pycnogonida of the western North Atlantic and the Caribbean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 97 (3216), 157 - 342; 3 charts.
  • Stock, J. H. (1979) Abyssal Pycnogonida from the North-eastern Atlantic Basin, Part II. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 19, 397 - 413.
  • Nakamura, K. & Child, C. A. (1991) Pycnogonida from waters adjacent to Japan. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 512, 1 - 74.
  • 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.
  • Child, C. A. (1995) Antarctic and subantarctic Pycnogonida: III, The family Nymphonidae, IV, The families Colossendeidae and Rhynchothoracidae, V, The families Pycnogonidae, Phoxichilidiidae, Endeididae and Callipallenidae, including the Genus Pallenopsis. Biology of the Antarctic Seas XXIV (Ed. S. D. Cairns). American Geophysical Union, Antarctic Research Series, 69, 1 - 68; 69 - 111; 113 - 165, respectively.
  • Child, C. A. & Segonzac, M. (1996) Sericosura heteroscela and S. cyrtoma, new species, and other Pycnogonida from Atlantic and Pacific hydrothermal vents, with notes on habitat and environment. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 109 (4), 664 - 676.
  • Bamber, R. N. (2002) Bathypelagic pycnogonids (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from the Discovery deep-sea cruises. Journal of Natural History, 36, 715 - 727.
  • Veena, S., Kaladharan, P., Prathibha, Rohit., & Syda Rao, G. (2008) The pycnogonid (Endeis mollis Carpenter, 1904) associated with hydroids from the inshore waters of Visakhapatnam, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 50, 17 - 22.
  • Stock, J. H. (1991) Deep-water Pycnogonida from the surroundings of New Caledonia. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol 8. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, (A) 151, 125 - 212.