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
Bathypallenopsis guineensis
(Stock, 1974)
Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) guineensis
Stock, 1974, 1049
–1050; fig. 40.
Bamber & Thurston, 1995
, 135 (in key), 139.
Bathypallenopsis guineensis
Bamber, 2010
, 176–177; fig. 212.
Material.
Solomon Islands
:
1 specimen
(MNHN-IU-2007-4734), station CP2219,
07°50.3’S
157°34.4’E
,
XI 2004
, depth 650–
636 m
, New
Georgia
.
2 specimens
(MNHN-IU-2007-4735), station CP2248,
07°42.5’S
156°24.8’E
, 0
1 XI 2004
, depth
650–673 m
,
Ile
Salomon
. All Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.
Remarks.
Bathypallenopsis guineensis
is a rarely-recorded deep-sea species, known previously only from Gulf of
Guinea
(type-locality) at
1949–1986 m
depth, and in the north-east Atlantic at
1484–4320 m
depth (Stock, 1974;
Bamber & Thurston, 1995
). These first records for the Melanesian region (and indeed the first for the Pacific Ocean) are from shallower waters, at
650–
673 m
.