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.
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Hyperietta vosseleri
(
Stebbing, 1904
)
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
).