Deep-water decapod crustaceans studied with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda)
Author
Poupin, Joseph
Author
Corbari, Laure
Author
Pérez, Thierry
Author
Chevaldonné, Pierre
text
Zootaxa
2012
3550
43
60
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.282838
9b29a45a-d0cc-4f71-980d-75188b04bb57
1175-5326
282838
Family
Stenopodidae Claus, 1872
Stenopus pyrsonotus
Goy & Devaney, 1980
: pre-dive at stn 32, Nuku Hiva,
129 m
(
Fig. 3
b). R/V
Alis
, dredge, Hiva Oa,
85–
87 m
.
Remarks
.
Stenopus pyrsonotus
is a shallow-water species common in caves the Marquesas between
20–
35 m
. This species was photographed by the ROV at
129 m
, being its deepest record. A specimen of
S. pyrsonotus
collected in 1997 with a dredge at
85–87 m
off Hiva Oa (R/V
Alis
, unpublished record, MUSORSTOM 9, stn DW1217) confirms the observations made with the ROV.