Vibilia robusta Bovallius 1887

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Vibiliidae; Vibilia; Vibilia robusta; Chevreux; Hurley; Indian; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5019382; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5019382

Vibilia robusta Bovallius (Figs 7­9) Vibilia robusta Bovallius, 1887a: 7­8. — Bovallius 1887c: 54–57, pl. 7, figs 12–34. Vosseler 1901: 123. Walker 1909: 50, 53. Behning 1913a: 529. Behning 1913b: 215. Stephensen 1918: 37–38, fig. 9. Behning 1927: 116–117, 121 (Table), fig. 2. Chevreux 1935: 175. Hurley 1960a: 110. Semenova 1973: 170: Semenova 1976: 136­138. Brusca 1981: 18 (key), 39, fig. 4i. Vinogradov et al. 1982: 214–216, fig. 106. De Broyer & Jazdzewski 1993: 112. Zeidler 1998: 37, figs 25–27. Vinogradov 1999: 1180, fig. 4.88. Vibilia hirsuta Behning & Woltereck, 1912: 6–8, figs 4–6. — Behning 1913b: 220. Behning 1925: 489–491, figs 42–51. Type material Type material of V. robusta could not be found at the SMNH, ZMUC or in Uppsala and is considered lost. However, in the SMNH are several lots from the Atlantic that may have been part of Bovallius’s original material. Fortunately the descriptions and figures of Bovallius (1887c) readily characterise this species. No precise type locality is given by Bovallius (1887a, c). He merely lists the distribution as “Atlantic, Indian Ocean” (1887a), and “North Atlantic, tropical Atlantic” (1887c). Type material of synonyms Type material of V. hirsuta could not be found in the ZMB, or ZMH and is considered lost. However, this species is clearly the same as V. robusta, judging by the figures and description of Behning and Woltereck (1912). Material examined (> 100 specimens) Tasman Sea: 9 lots (SAMA), 14 specimens. Great Australian Bight: 4 lots (SAMA), 13 specimens. North Atlantic: 1 lot (ZMB), 2 lots (ZMH), 5 lots (ZMUC), numerous specimens. South Atlantic: 2 lots (ZMUC), 7 specimens. North Pacific: 1 lot (CAS), 2 lots (LACM), 1 lot (USNM), 11 specimens. South Pacific: 2 lots (BMNH), 20 specimens. Philippines: 1 lot (USNM), 4 specimens. Diagnosis Body length up to 20 mm. Antennae 1; as long as head and first pereonite; flagellum oval, evenly rounded terminally, slightly truncate ventrally in mature specimens. Gnathopod 2; basis inflated in mature specimens, ...