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Bathypallenopsis guineensis Stock 1974

Description

Bathypallenopsis guineensis (Stock, 1974)

Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) guineensis Stock, 1974, 1049 –1050; fig. 40. Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 135 (in key), 139. Bathypallenopsis guineensis Bamber, 2010, 176–177; fig. 212.

Material. Solomon Islands: 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4734), station CP2219, 07°50.3’S 157°34.4’E, XI 2004, depth 650– 636 m, New Georgia. 2 specimens (MNHN-IU-2007-4735), station CP2248, 07°42.5’S 156°24.8’E, 0 1 XI 2004, depth 650–673 m, Ile Salomon. All Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.

Remarks. Bathypallenopsis guineensis is a rarely-recorded deep-sea species, known previously only from Gulf of Guinea (type-locality) at 1949–1986 m depth, and in the north-east Atlantic at 1484–4320 m depth (Stock, 1974; Bamber & Thurston, 1995). These first records for the Melanesian region (and indeed the first for the Pacific Ocean) are from shallower waters, at 650– 673 m.

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 page 64, 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
Stock
Species
guineensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bathypallenopsis guineensis Stock, 1974 sec. Bamber, 2011

References

  • 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.