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
Author
Bamber, Roger N
text
Zootaxa
2011
2787
55
67
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.201969
46df74fc-444d-4317-aca4-9e2b56ac9144
1175-5326
201969
Colossendeis bicincta
Schimkewitsch, 1893
Stock, 1979
, 409–411; figs 1, 3.
Stock, 1984a
, 745–746 (literature).
Stock, 1991
, 163.
Bamber & Thurston, 1995
, 144 (key),145; fig. 9G. Bamber, 2010, 44–45; fig. 85.
Material.
Solomon Islands
:
1 specimen
(MNHN-IU-2007-4743), station CP2219,
07°50.3’S
157°34.4’E
,
XI 2004
, depth 650–
636 m
, New
Georgia
. Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.
Remarks.
Colossendeis bicincta
is a large (adult body length
ca
25 mm
), rarely-recorded species with a characteristic, bulbous proboscis. Previous records are from the eastern Pacific (Gulf of California,
Mexico
,
Colombia
,
Panama
), the Lau Basin and the north-east Atlantic (Bay of Biscay and Porcupine Abyssal Plain), at depths between 280 and
4850 m
, normally deeper than
1900 m
. It has not been recorded in the Melanesian region before.