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Colossendeis cucurbita Cole 1909

Description

Colossendeis cucurbita Cole, 1909

Cole, 1909, 188–191; Pl. 2, figs 3, 4; Pl. 3, figs 8–12. Stock, 1978b, 405–408; fig. 2 (literature & synonymy). Bamber, 1985, 305. Bamber & Thurston, 1993, 859. Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 144 (key), 147–148; fig. 9 B. Bamber, 2004a, 7. Bamber, 2010, 50–51; fig. 88.

Material. Solomon Islands: 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4747), station CP2253, 07°26.5’S 156°15.0’E, 0 2 XI 2004, depth 1200–1218 m, Ile Salomon. Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.

Remarks. An infrequently recorded, large (adult body length about 20 mm) abyssal species, not recorded previously from Melanesian waters, but known from the north and south Atlantic and the north and south Pacific Oceans, at depths between 1300 and 4500 m.

Notes

Published as part of Bamber, Roger N, 2011, The male of Ascorhynchus constrictus Stock, 1997 (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida), with further new records of deep-sea pycnogonids from New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2787 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201969

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Colossendeidae
Genus
Colossendeis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Pantopoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Cole
Species
cucurbita
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Colossendeis cucurbita Cole, 1909 sec. Bamber, 2011

References

  • Cole, L. J. (1909) XIX. Pycnogonida. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U S. Fish Commission Steamer " Albatross ", from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 52 (11), 185 - 192; Pls I - III.
  • Bamber, R. N. (1985) A second Pallenopsis mollissima (Hoek), with other deep water pycnogonids from the Glasgow Museum. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 83, 301 - 306.
  • Bamber, R. N. & Thurston, M. H. (1993) Deep water pycnogonids of the Cape Verde Slope. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 73, 837 - 861.
  • Bamber, R. N. & Thurston, M. H. (1995) The deep-water pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115, 117 - 162.
  • Bamber, R. N. (2004 a) Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga: new records and new species. In: Marshall, B. & Richer de Forges, B. (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, Vol. 23. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 191, 73 - 83.