Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) in western Mexico. 7 Superfamily Platysceloidea. Family Oxycephalidae 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. rebegasca @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9716 - 1964 & Currently retired. rebegasca@gmail.com 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 2022 2022-03-03 5105 2 219 236 journal article 20349 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.2.3 d9ad8d5b-dd70-4efe-8a01-76ea5babc6b8 1175-5326 6332529 2B46C765-C80B-437B-B8C2-95335D589E9F Glossocephalus milneedwardsi Bovallius, 1887 Glossocephalus Milne-Edwardsi Bovallius, 1887: 35 . Glossocephalus milneedwardsi .— Brusca, 1981: 12 (list), 32 (key), 45, fig. 22a, b; Siegel-Causey, 1992: 345‒346; Vinogradov et al ., 1996: 529 , fig. 229; García Madrigal, 2007: 156 (list); Guillén Pozo, 2007: 18 (key), 106‒108, fig. 37; Valencia & Giraldo, 2009: 268 (tab. 1); Gasca, 2009: 89 (tab. 1); Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 142 (tab. 1), 152 (appendix); Gasca et al ., 2012: 126 (tab. 1); Zeidler, 2016: 86‒89 (passim), figs. 41‒42, 89 (key); Violante-Huerta et al ., 2021: 81 (tab. 1). Elsia indica Giles, 1890: 250‒251 . Material examined . 1M in one locality ( Fig. 1 ). TALUD IV . St. 22 ( 24°17’20”N , 108°50’30”W ), August 26, 2000 , 1M , MN from surface to 1325 m (TD, ca. 1800 m ) (ICML-EMU-12945) . Distribution . Circumtropical, from 30°N to 40°S ; Mediterranean and Red Seas ( Vinogradov et al . 1996 ). In the eastern Pacific from California to the Galapagos Islands (García Madrigal 2007, this study). Remarks . Only two species of Glossocephalus are known to date, and the male reported herein fits well with the characteristics of G. milneedwardsi , including the typical eyes of this species. Another rare species in the Gulf of California , reported by Siegel-Causey (1992) from both the northern and southern Gulf , but only in the southern Gulf in our study ( Fig. 1 ). Lavaniegos & Hereu (2009) reported this species from the Mexican portion of the California Current .