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 longicarpus Behning, 1913 Vibilia longicarpus Behning, 1913: 530‒533 , figs. 2‒6; Vinogradov et al ., 1996: 243 (key), 279‒282, fig. 114; Shih & Hendrycks, 2003: 255 (tab. 1), 256 (tab. 2), 292 (key), 283, figs. 12, 13; Zeidler, 2003: 13 (key), 60‒63, figs. 27‒28; García Madrigal, 2007: 145 (list); Guillén Pozo, 2007: 20 (key), 33, fig. 7, 121 (tab. 1), 144‒171 (passim), 149 (tab. 40); Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 151 (Appendix 1); Gasca et al ., 2012: 126 (tab. 1), 132 (tab. 3), 133 (tab. 4), 134 (tab. 5), 135 (tab. 6). Material examined . 145M, 86F from 9 localities ( Fig. 4 ). TALUD III . St. 3B ( 22°36’36”N , 106°35’54”W ), August 17, 1991 , 3M, I-K from surface to 275 m ( TD , ca. 650 m ) (ICML-EMU-12853-A); St. 6 ( 23º17’54”N , 107º30’18”W ), August 18, 1991 , 120M, 75F, AD from surface to 996‒1148 m ( TD ,> 1500 m ) (ICML-EMU- 12854); St. 10B ( 23°43’24”N , 107°39’06”W ), August 18, 1991 , 11M, 8F, I-K from surface to 630 m ( TD , ca. 900 m ) (ICML-EMU-12853-B); St. 19 ( 25°12’00”N , 109°07’00”W ), August 20, 1991 , 1M, I-K, surface to 410 m ( TD , 920 m ) (ICML-EMU-12853-C); St. 19B ( 25°18’24”N , 109°18’36”W ), August 20, 1991 , 3M, 1F, I-K from surface to 600 m ( TD , 1890 m ) (ICML-EMU-12855-A); St. 25A1 ( 25°51’00”N , 109°57’00”W ), August 21, 1991 , 1M, IK from surface to 200 m ( TD , ca. 1320 m ) (ICML-EMU-12855-B). TALUD V . St. 5 ( 22°00’57”N , 106°40’00”W ), December 13, 2000 , 4M, 1F, MN from surface to ca. 1400 m ( TD > 1600 m ) (ECO-CH-Z-10553); St. 29 ( 25°14’36”N , 109°24’15”W ), December 17, 2000 , 1M, MN from surface to 1290 m ( TD , 2040 m ) (ICML-EMU-12856). TALUD VI . St. 7 ( 22°21’39”N , 107°01’42”W ), March 14, 2001 , 1M, 1F, MN from surface to 1305 m ( TD , 2100 m ) (ICML- EMU-12857) . Distribution . Mostly found in the tropical waters of the eastern Pacific; also in NW Indian Ocean and South China Sea ( Vinogradov et al . 1996 , Zeidler 2003 ). In the eastern Pacific it ranges from 12°56’N , 104°15’W to 17°55’N , 119°50’W ( Shih & Hendrycks 2003 ). Remarks . Recorded as a rare species by Vinogradov et al . (1996) , V. longicarpus is also considered a tropical species ( Shih & Hendrycks 2003 ) which appears to be rather common in the Gulf of California where it has been previously reported by Gasca & Browne (2018) in association with the salp Metcalfina hexagona (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) at 315 m depth. Shih & Hendrycks (2003) found it from the surface to 225 m depth. It has been recorded as the 14 th most abundant species in the Mexican tropical Pacific by Gasca et al . (2012) .