Hyperia vosseleri Stebbing, 1904: 33–34.
Hyperietta vosseleri — Bowman, 1973: 58; Siegel-Causey, 1982: 148 (key), 157; Vinogradov et al., 1996: 392 (key), 394, fig. 169; Zeidler, 2004: 32 (key), 34; García Madrigal, 2007: 149 (list); Valencia & Giraldo, 2009: 268 (tab. 1); 2011: 1492 (tab. 1); Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 142 (tab. 1), 151 (Appendix 1); Lavaniegos, 2014: 4 (tab. 1), fig. 5.
Hyperiietta vosseleri — Brusca & Hendrickx, 2005: 150 (list).
Hyperitta vosseleri — Lavaniegos, 2014: 8.
Material examined. 8M, 2F, in six localities (Fig. 2). TALUD III, St. 19 (25°12’00”N, 109°07’00”W), August 20, 1991, 2M, 1F, I-K, surface to 410 m (TD, 920 m) (ECO-CH-Z-10384); St. 19B (25°18’24”N, 109°18’36”W), August 20, 1991, 1M, I-K, from surface to 600 m (TD, 1890 m) (ICML-EMU-12776A). TALUD IV, St. 7 (22°00’22”N, 106°49’18”W), August 23, 2000, 1M, MN, from surface to 500 m (TD, 1970 m) (ICML-EMU-12776B). TALUD VI. St. 22 (24°17’34”N, 108°50’25”W), March 15, 2001, 1F, MN, from surface to 1410 m (TD, 1760 m) (ICML-EMU-12776C). TALUD XI. St. 6A (16°58’00”N, 100°57’00”W), June 7, 2007, 2M, MN, from surface to 1400 m (TD, 1960 m) (ICML-EMU-12777A); St. 19B (16°59’39”N, 100°58’07”W), March 28, 2008, 2M, MN, from surface to 1200 m (TD, 1995 m) (ICML-EMU-12777B).
Distribution. Cosmopolitan in warm waters. In the eastern Pacific from California, USA, to western Baja California and Gulf of California, Mexico (Brusca & Hendrickx 2005, García-Madrigal 2007). Another abundant lestrigonid in the Central Pacific gyre, H. vosseleri has been reported as relatively common in the central and southern Gulf of California (Siegel-Causey 1992).
Remarks. In the 150‒450 m depth range (Siegel-Causey 1992); 0‒200 m (Vinogradov et al. 1996, García-Madrigal 2007). Highly abundant in the Mexican tropical Pacific area during ENSO conditions (Gasca et al. 2012).