Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) in western Mexico. 3 Family Lestrigonidae Author Gasca, Rebeca El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Av. del Centenario km 5.5, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 77014, Mexico. rgasca @ ecosur. mx Author Hendrickx, Michel E. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Bentónicos, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y LiMN, ología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, PO Box 811, Mazatlán, 82000 Sinaloa, Mexico. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-05-19 4974 1 169 187 journal article 6229 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.1.8 32c50ac2-bfd6-462c-a8ca-4806b75907d0 1175-5326 4772335 F2BE279E-5F7C-48E5-8D47-70974C8E9781 Hyperietta luzoni ( Stebbing, 1888 ) Hyperia luzoni Stebbing, 1888: 1382 , plate 166A. Hyperietta luzoni .— Bowman, 1973: 55 , figs. 39‒40; Siegel-Causey, 1982: 148 (key), 149; Vinogradov et al ., 1996: 392 (key), 392, fig. 168; Zeidler, 2004: 32 (key), 34; García Madrigal, 2007: 148 (list); Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 151 (Appendix 1); Lavaniegos, 2014: 4 (tab. 1). Hyperiietta luzoni — Brusca & Hendrickx, 2005: 150 (list). Material examined . 1M in one locality ( Fig. 1 ). TALUD III . 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-12772) . Distribution . Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Mediterranean Sea ( Vinogradov et al . 1996 , García Madrigal 2007 ). In the eastern Pacific from California , USA , to Baja California and the Gulf of California , Mexico , and south to 38°6’S , 88°02’W ( García Madrigal 2007 ). Remarks . Siegel-Causey (1982) reported H. luzoni as a very rare species in the Gulf of California . During his study it was recorded from two sites only, in the epipelagic layers in the southern Gulf and in deep water ( 1087 m ) in the northern Gulf. García Madrigal (2007) mentioned it as an epipelagic, coastal species.