Colossendeis colossea Wilson 1881

• Main Author: Bamber, Roger N
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Pycnogonida; Pantopoda; Colossendeidae; Colossendeis; Colossendeis colossea; New Zealand; Reykjanes; Boa; Thurston; Bougainville; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6192806; https://zenodo.org/record/6192806

Colossendeis colossea Wilson, 1881 Hedgpeth, 1948, 271– 272; fig. 50 b (literature). Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 144 (key), 145; fig. 9 F. Turpaeva, 2006, 139 (literature). Staples, 2007, 87– 88, figs; 2 A–J, 7 A, table 1 (literature). Bamber, 2010, 48– 49; fig. 87. Material. Solomon Islands: 1 specimen (MNHN-IU- 2007-4744), station CP2218, 07° 50.3 ’S 157 ° 34.6 ’E, XI 2004, depth 582–864 m, New Georgia. Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll. Vanuatu: 1 specimen (MNHN-IU- 2007- 4745), station CP2310, 14° 45 ’ 87 ”S 167 °06’ 56 ”E, 15 XI 2004, depth 864–927 m, Vanuatu, NE Santo, BOA0 Alis . 1 specimen (MNHN-IU- 2007-4746), station CP2452, 15° 59 ’ 60 ”S 166 ° 41 ’ 30 ”E, 11 IX 2005, depth not recorded, Vanuatu, Gouyot Bougainville, BOA 1 Alis . Both coll. S Samedi et al. Remarks. This very large panoceanic species (adult body length about 25 mm) has been recorded before in the Melanesian region from New Caledonia and Vanuatu (Stock, 1991; 1997) at depths from 844 to 2110 m (globally 420 to 5200 m). However, recently Staples (2007) described Colossendeis tasmanica from the east coast of Australia, a species showing many similarities to C. colossea , with which it may have been confused in the past, and recorded in the present material off the Solomon Islands (see below). It is therefore possible that some of Stock’s ( loc. cit .) earlier records from this region may in fact be C. tasmanica . Characteristically, amongst other differences tabulated by Staples ( loc. cit .), the terminal oviger claw is fused in C. colossea (as in all the material listed above), but articulated in C. tasmanica . : 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 : {"references": ["Wilson, E. B. (1881) Report on the Pycnogonida. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, along the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the US Coast Survey Steamer \" Blake, \" Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. XIII. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 8 (12), 239 - 256; Pls I - V.", "Hedgpeth, J. W. (1948) The Pycnogonida of the western North Atlantic and the Caribbean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 97 (3216), 157 - 342; 3 charts.", "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.", "Turpaeva, E. P. (2006) Pycnogonida of the Reykjanes Ridge. In Mironov, A. N., Gebruk A. V. & Southward, A. J. (eds): Biogeography of the North Atlantic Seamounts. Russian Academy of Sciences; KMK Scientific Press Ltd, Moscow. 134 - 140.", "Staples, D. A. (2007) A new species of Colossendeis (Pycnogonida: Colossendeidae) together with records from Australian and New Zealand waters. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 64, 79 - 94.", "Stock, J. H. (1991) Deep-water Pycnogonida from the surroundings of New Caledonia. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol 8. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, (A) 151, 125 - 212.", "Stock, J. H. (1997) Pycnogonids collected in recent years around New Caledonia and Vanuatu. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol 18. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 176, 389 - 409."]}