Colossendeis melancholicus Stock 1974 ...

Colossendeis melancholicus Stock, 1974. Plate 5C, D Colossendeis melancholicus Stock, 1974: 988 –990.— Staples, 2007: 79 –94. Colossendeis rostrata Turpaeva, 1994: 91 –96 (new synonymy). Material examined. One specimen (NHMUK 2018.36), Southwest Indian Ocean, Atlantis Bank, 32˚ 43. 20'S, 57˚ 15...

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Main Author: Staples, David A.
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Published: Zenodo 2019
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944905
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5944905
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Summary:Colossendeis melancholicus Stock, 1974. Plate 5C, D Colossendeis melancholicus Stock, 1974: 988 –990.— Staples, 2007: 79 –94. Colossendeis rostrata Turpaeva, 1994: 91 –96 (new synonymy). Material examined. One specimen (NHMUK 2018.36), Southwest Indian Ocean, Atlantis Bank, 32˚ 43. 20'S, 57˚ 15. 39'E, parent no. 2615, 1117 m, specimen JC066-3846, stn event 8.5, 10 December 2011. One specimen (NHMUK 2018.37), Southwest Indian Ocean, Atlantis Bank, 32˚ 43. 20'S, 57˚ 15. 39'E, parent no. 2615, 1117 m, specimen JC066-3847, stn event 8.5, 10 December 2011. Distribution. Grand Bahama I., West Atlantic Ocean; off Jamaica, Caribbean Sea, (unpublished); Tasman Sea (west coast Tasmania); Gulf of Guinea, East Atlantic Ocean; Southern Ocean, Southwest Indian Ridge. 500–1755 m. Remarks. The leg span of the largest specimen here is about 54 cm and the other about 47 cm. Colossendeis melancholicus is a distinctive species on account of the proboscis length which approaches three times the trunk length, here 2.9 times in ... : Published as part of Staples, David A., 2019, Pycnogonids (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from the Southwest Indian Ridge, pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 4567 (3) on pages 430-431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2598945 ...