Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) in western Mexico. 6. Superfamily Vibilioidea. Families Paraphronimidae and Vibiliidae Author Gasca, Rebeca 0000-0002-9716-1964 El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Av. del Centenario km 5.5, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 77014, Mexico. rgasca @ ecosur. mx; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9716 - 1964 rgasca@ecosur.mx Author Hendrickx, Michel E. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Bentónicos, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, PO Box 811, Mazatlán, 82000 Sinaloa, Mexico. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-11-25 5071 4 563 578 journal article 3300 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.4.5 084d8de1-dab3-4d6e-9db0-69e853c39709 1175-5326 5726520 B81C6E57-229D-4AA4-BA87-8EF6BD135F2B Vibilia chuni Behning & Woltereck, 1912 Vibilia chuni Behning & Woltereck, 1912: 8‒9 , figs. 7‒8; Brusca, 1981: 17 (key), 39, fig. 4r; Vinogradov et al ., 1996: 243 (key), 268‒270, fig. 109; Siegel-Causey, 1982: 116 (key), 125; Shih & Hendrycks, 2003: 255 (tab. 1), 256 (tab. 2), 292 (key), 280, figs. 10, 11; Zeidler, 2003: 13 (key), 57‒59, fig. 26; Brusca & Hendrickx, 2005: 149 (list); García Madrigal, 2007: 144 (list); Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 142 (tab. 1), 146 (tab. 2), 151 (Appendix 1); Gasca et al ., 2012: 126 (tab. 1); Valencia & Giraldo, 2012: 1492 (tab. 1); Valencia et al . 2013: 51 (tab. 1); Lavaniegos, 2014: 18 (tab. 2), 19‒21 (passim); 2017: 18 (tab. 2). Vibilia hodgsoni Stewart 1913: 251‒253 , pl. 6, figs. 1‒6. Material examined . 2M and 3F from three localities ( Fig. 3 ). TALUD V . St. 5 ( 22°00’57”N , 106°40’00”W ), December 13, 2000 , 3F, MN from surface to ca. 1400 m ( TD > 1600 m ) (ICML-EMU-12850). TALUD VI . St. 22 ( 24°17’34”N , 108°50’25”W ), March 15, 2001 , 1M, MN from surface to 1410 m ( TD , 1760 m ) (ICML-EMU- 12851); St. 29 ( 25°16’24”N , 109°24’54”W ), March 16, 2001 , 1M, MN from surface to 1440 m ( TD , 2080 m ) (ECO-CH-Z-10552) . Distribution . Circumtropical ( Vinogradov et al . 1996 ). In the eastern Pacific it ranges from off the Baja California Peninsula and in the Gulf of California south to Gorgona Island, Colombia (García- Madrigal 2007, Valencia & Giraldo 2012 ), with one isolated record at 35°18’N ( Shih & Hendrycks 2003 ). Remarks . According to Vinogradov et al . (1996) , V. chuni always occurs in small numbers. Present records confirm this suggestion. Shih & Hendrycks (2003) collected this species from surface to 230 m depth.