Deep-water Pycnogonida from recent cruises to Papua New Guinea and Melanesia, with an appendix of new records from Polynesia and descriptions of five new species
Author
Bamber, Roger N.
ARTOO Marine Biology Consultants Ocean Quay Marina, Belvidere Road Southampton SO 14 5 QY (United Kingdom)
text
Zoosystema
2013
2013-06-28
35
2
195
214
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2013n2a5
journal article
10.5252/z2013n2a5
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Colossendeis leptorhynchus
Hoek, 1881
Colossendeis leptorhynchus
–
Stock 1978: 401
, 402, fig. 21; 1997: 397 (literature).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — One specimen, MNHN- IU-2012-493, Stn. CP3744, Vicinity of the Woodlark Islands,
Papua New Guinea
,
09°17’S
,
152°17’E
,
776- 856 m
,
10.XI.2010
, coll. Samadi & Corbari. One specimen, MNHN-IU-2008-20498, Stn. CP2785, NW
Malaita
,
Îles Salomon
,
08°53’S
,
160°42’E
,
420-602 m
,
14.XI.2007
, coll. Richer & Boisselier. Two specimens, MNHN-IU-2008-20524, Stn. CP3741, Vicinity of the Woodlark Islands,
Papua New Guinea
,
09°14’S
,
152°18’E
,
694-766 m
,
10.XI.2010
, coll. Samadi & Corbari. One specimen, MNHN-IU-2011-906, Stn. CP3667, Open Bay,
Papua New Guinea
,
04°40’S
,
151°34’E
,
670-921 m
,
23.XI.2010
, coll. Samadi & Corbari.
REMARKS
A pan-oceanic deep-water species, mainly recorded in the southern hemisphere, at depths between 531 and
4300 m
;
recorded by
Stock (1997)
off
New Caledonia
and
Vanuatu
at
751-775 m
.