Species of Scina Prestandrea, 1833 (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea, Scinidae) from western Mexico with the description of a new species from the Gulf of California Author Gasca, Rebeca El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Av. del Centenario Km. 5.5, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 77014, Mexico. 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 2020 2020-06-26 4803 2 329 344 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.5 1175-5326 3909163 F91C0D6F-E2A1-4363-B39A-828D1F9C8D14 Scina borealis (G.O. Sars, 1882 ) Clydonia borealis Sars, 1882: 76–77 , pl. 3, figs. 1, 1a,b. Scina borealis .- Siegel-Causey, 1992: 71; Vinogradov et al., 1996: 172 , fig. 65; Brusca & Hendrickx, 2005: 147 (list); García- Madrigal, 2007: 136 (list); Zeidler & de Broyer, 2009: 17 (list) (complete synonymy). Material examined . TALUD I. St. 5 (ca. 23°16’ N , 107°31’W ), December 11, 1989 , 1F, BO from surface to ca. 200 m ( TD > 1500 m ) (ICML-EMU-12450A); St. 6 ( 23°15’54”N , 107°31’12”W ), December 12, 1989 , 2M, 4H, BO from surface to ca. 200 m ( TD , 1550 m ) (ICML-EMU-12450B). TALUD III . St. 3B ( 22°36’36”N , 106°35’54”W ), August 17, 1991 , 2M and 1F, IK from surface to 275 m ( TD , ca. 650 m ) (ICML-EMU-12451A); St. 18 (ca. 25°N , 109°W ), August 19, 1991 , 1F, IK (depth not registered) (ICML-EMU-12451B); St. 19B ( 25°18’24”N , 109°18’36”W ), August 20, 1991 , 1F, IK from surface to 600 m ( TD , 1890 m ) (ICML-EMU-12451C). TALUD IV . St. 22 ( 24°17’20”N , 108°50’30”W ), August 26, 2000 , 1M and 1F, MN from surface to 1325 m ( TD , ca. 1800 m ) (ECO-CH-Z-10305); St. 29 ( 24°57’48”N , 109°37’00”W ), August 27, 2000 , 1F, MN from surface to 1280 m ( TD , 2080 m ) (ICML-EMU- 12452). TALUD V . St. 5 ( 22°00’57”N , 106°40’00”W ), December 13, 2000 , 1M, MN from surface to ca. 1400 m ( TD > 1600 m ) (ICML-EMU-12453A); St. 29 ( 25°14’36”N , 109°24’15”W ), December 17, 2000 , 2F, MN from surface to 1290 m (total depth 2040 m ) (ICML-EMU-12453B); St. 36 ( 25°54’30”N , 110°11’24”W ), December 17, 2000 , 2M and 1F, MN from surface to 1340 m (total depth 1990 m ) (ICML-EMU-12453C). TALUD VI . St. 7 ( 22°21’39”N , 107°01’42”W ), March 14, 2001 , 1M and 1F, MN from surface to 1305 m ( TD , 2100 m ) (ECO-CH- Z-10306); St. 15 ( 23°14’42”N , 107°30’00”W ), March 14, 2001 , 2M, MN from surface to 1230 m ( TD , 2390 m ) (ICML-EMU-12454A); St. 22 ( 24°17’34”N , 108°50’25”W ), March 15, 2001 , 2F, MN from surface to 1410 m ( TD , 1760 m ) (ICML-EMU-12454B); St. 29 ( 25°16’24”N , 109°24’54”W ), March 16, 2001 , 1M and 2F, MN from surface to 1440 m ( TD , 2080 m ) (ICML-EMU-12454C); St. 36 ( 25°53’15”N , 110°10’06”W ), March 17, 2001 , 1F, MN from surface to 1360 m ( TD , 2000 m ) (ICML-EMU-12454D). TALUD VII . St. 36 ( 25°42’37”N , 110°04’35”W ), June 9, 2001 , 1M, MN from surface to 1390 m ( TD , 2400 m ) (ICML-EMU-12455). TALUD X. St. 20 ( 27°14’41”N , 111°36’15”W ), February 13, 2007 , 1 M, MN from surface to ca. 1250 m ( TD , 1785 m ) (ICML-EMU-12456A); St. 23 St. 23 ( 27°00’30”N , 111°12’00”W ), February 14, 2007 , 1F, MN from surface to aprox. 1250 m ( TD , 1770 m ) (ICML-EMU-12456B). TALUD XI . St. 6A ( 16°58’00”N , 100°57’00”W ), June 7, 2007 , 1 F, MN from surface to 1400 m ( TD , 1960 m ) (ICML-EMU-12457A); St. 19B ( 17°56’00”N , 103°10’00”W ), June 9, 2007 , 1M and 1F, MN from surface to 1490 m ( TD , 1750 m ) (ICML-EMU-12457B). TALUD XII . St. 15C ( 17°27’51”N , 102°10’43”W ), March 31, 2008 , 1F, MN from surface to 1530 m ( TD , 1880 m ) (ICML-EMU-12458) . FIGURE 1 . Localities where Scina borealis (G.O. Sars, 1882 ) was captured during this survey. Eastern Pacific and worldwide distribution . Alaska to the west coast of Baja California and the Gulf of California, Mexico ; cosmopolitan ( Brusca & Hendrickx 2005 ; García-Madrigal 2007 ). Common in temperate and warm-temperate waters around the globe and known as a pan-oceanic species that can be found from the Artic to the Antarctic and all oceans and at depths of 0 to 3000 m ( Vinogradov et al. 1996 ). Remarks . One of the most frequently collected species, Scina borealis was found in 21 stations, 19 in the Gulf of California and 3 off SW Mexico ( Fig. 1 ). A total of 38 specimens (15M, 23F) were collected. Specimens of up to 8 mm in length were found in these samples; a single female with its offspring in the marsupium was also obtained (TALUD I, St. 6). This species closely resembles S. wagleri , but uropods are wider and the exopods of both uropod 1 and uropod 2 are reduced to spines in S. borealis .