Neoscalpellum debile

• Main Author: Young, Paulo S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2001
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Pedunculata; Scalpellidae; Neoscalpellum; Neoscalpellum debile; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4689190; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03927A32493AFA24FF4EFE9EFE6BF923

Neoscalpellum debile (Aurivillius, 1898) Scalpellum debile Aurivillius, 1898: 189. Neoscalpellum debile – Newman & Ross 1971: 96, figs 49, 50 (with synonymy). — Young 1998a: 13, figs 10-11 (with synonymy). MATERIALEXAMINED. — BENGAL 2, stn 13078#1, 48°50.13’N, 16°39.86’W to 48°59.06’N, 16°38.58’W, 4844 m, 1 specimen, tl (cl) 35.5 (23.0) mm (MNHN Ci 2857). — Stn 13078#11, 48°59.19’N, 16°35.98’W, 4844 m, 5 specimens, tl (cl) 30.7 (23.4) to 37.1 (28.6) mm (MNHN Ci 2858, MNRJ 13903). BENGAL 3, stn 13200#70, 48°51.62’N, 16°31.80’W, 4845 m to 48°50.09’N, 16°33.98’W, 4848 m, 2 specimens, tl (cl) 42.5 (31.0) to 43.8 (31.3) mm (MNHN Ci 2859, MNRJ 13904). — Stn 13200#93, 48°50.55’N, 16°25.30’W, 4844 m to 48°47.46’N, 16°30.42’W, 4849 m, 2 specimens, tl (cl) 41.6 (31.6) to 44.4 (29.2) mm (MNHN Ci 2860, MNRJ 13905). — Stn 13200#94, 48°50.99’N, 16°23.03’W, 4847 m to 48°47.29’N, 16°32.23’W, 4851 m, 3 specimens, tl (cl) 21.5 (16.6) to 44.7 (31.6) mm (MNHN Ci 2861, MNRJ 13906). BENGAL 5, stn 13368#47, 48°51.63’N, 16°25.18’W to 48°50.93’N, 16°25.99’W, 4844 m, 2 specimens, tl (cl) 39.4 (28.9) to 41.8 (29.0) mm (MNHN Ci 2862, MNRJ 13907). — Stn 13368#48, 48°49.64’N, 16°30.12’W, 4841 m to 48°45.78’N, 16°32.37’W, 4845 m, 1 specimen, tl (cl) 37.8 (31.6) mm (MNHN Ci 2863). — Stn 13368#53, 48°50’N, 16°23.53’W, 4842 m, 9 specimens, tl (cl) 16.7 (13.3) to 49.8 (32.8) mm (MNHN Ci 2864, MNRJ 13908). BENGAL 6, stn 13627#11, 48°47.82’N, 16°44.37’W, 4840 m, 4 specimens, tl (cl) 26.4 (20.8) to 42.9 (32.4) mm (MNHN Ci 2865, MNRJ 13909). — Stn 13627#24, 48°50.47’N, 16°44.37’W, 4840 m, 2 specimens, tl (cl) 42.4 (30.4) to 46.9 (30.5) mm (MNHN Ci 2866, MNRJ 13910). REMARKS The present samples contain only full grown specimens of Neoscalpellum debile. This species has been commonly dredged on both sides of the North Atlantic between 2321 and 5318 m (Gruvel 1920; Pilsbry 1907a as Scalpellum dicheloplax Newman & Ross 1971; Young 1998a, b). It was also recorded in the South Atlantic: off Tristan da Cunha, Angola, and Brazil (Foster & ...