Species of Gnathophausiidae (Crustacea, Lophogastrida) collected off the west coast of Baja California, Mexico, during the TALUD cruises
Author
Hendrickx, Michel E.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-24
4609
3
449
468
journal article
26672
10.11646/zootaxa.4609.3.3
516e88e7-5d6e-4d32-8ec2-e1e7fb040a86
1175-5326
3227954
8505AD3A-6277-4D2D-A873-97AED184335E
Gnathophausia scapularis
Ortmann, 1906
(
Fig. 4
A–B)
Gnathophausia scapularis
Ortmann, 1906
: 50
, pl. 2, fig. 3a–c.
Gnathophausia scapularis
.―
Fage, 1941
: 39
.―
Pequegnat, 1965
: 400
, 402 (key).―
Mauchline & Murano, 1977
: 57
, table 1.―
Ibarra Rivera & Hendrickx, 2008
: 57
(list), 67 (key), 71, figs. 20, 21A–E.―
Meland & Aas, 2013
: 207
, fig. 12, 219 (key).―
Petryashov, 2015
: 242
.
Gnathophausia zoea
var
scapularis
.―W.M.
Tattersall, 1939
: 226
–227: 1951: 31.―
Gordan, 1957
: 334
.―
Petryashov, 2015
: 242
(list).
Material examined
.
TALUD
XV
, St. 1 (
23º18'40''N
,
111º19'37''W
),
Aug 4, 2012
,
7 males
(CL
29–46 mm
) and
15 juv.
(CL
15–27 mm
), BS operated at
750–850 m
(ICML-EMU-12297)
;
St. 5C (
23°16'42"N
,
110°54'55"W
),
Aug 5, 2012
, BS operated at
980–1036 m
,
8 males
(CL
32–49 mm
),
7 females
(CL
35–46 mm
),
30 juv.
(CL
17–29 mm
) (ICML-EMU-12299),
1 male
(CL
33 mm
), and
31 juv.
(CL
16–26 mm
) (ICML-EMU-12996)
;
St. 5E (
23º05'22”N
,
110º27'54''W
),
Aug 6, 2012
,
5 males
(CL
30–46 mm
) and
4 females
(CL
33–46 mm
), BS operated at
948–954 m
(ICML-EMU-12298)
.
TALUD XVI-B
, St. 17 (
29º54'18"N
,
116º01'30"W
),
May 29, 2014
,
1 female
(CL
47 mm
) and
4 males
(CL
20–28 mm
), BS operated at
734–774 m
(ICML-EMU-12321)
.
Distribution
. East Pacific, from California and western
Mexico
; Indian Ocean (
Ibarra Rivera & Hendrickx 2008
). In western
Mexico
it has been reported throughout the central-southern Gulf of California (
Ibarra Rivera & Hendrickx 2008
) and it is herein reported from several localities along the west coast of the
Baja California
Peninsula (
Fig. 5
).
Remarks
. With
108 specimens
collected during this survey in only three stations,
G. scapularis
was by far the most numerous species in the samples.