Vibilia borealis Bate & Westwood

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Vibiliidae; Vibilia; Vibilia borealis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5087229; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7B1ABE13AB1DFFC1FEA6FEA4FBB3C221

Vibilia borealis Bate & Westwood (Figs 3 & 4) Vibilia borealis Bate and Westwood, 1868: 524–526, text fig. — Bovallius 1887c: 57–58, text fig. Norman 1900: 137. Behning 1913b: 215–216. Stephensen 1923: 11–12. Schellenberg 1927: 615–616, fig. 24. Pirlot 1929: 94–95. Stephensen 1929: 42, fig. 13.2. Pirlot 1930: 10. Stephensen 1932a: 375. Grice & Hart 1962: 300. Vinogradov et al . 1982: 219–221, fig. 108. Barkhatov & Vinogradov 1988: 167, 168 (Table). Barkhatov et al . 1999: 808 (Table). Vinogradov 1990a: 56. Vibilia kroeyeri Bovallius, 1887a: 8. — Bovallius 1887b: 555. Bovallius 1887c: 58–60, pl. 8, figs 18–25. Behning 1913b: 216. Vibilia kroyeri — Stephensen 1918: 38–40, fig. 10 (part), 11, chart 5. Chevreux 1935: 174. Madin & Harbison 1977: 453 (table), 455. Type material The only likely type material of V. borealis in the BMNH is a specimen from the Norman collection (11,719–20) labelled “cotypes”. The designation of “ type ” by Norman is suspect as there are many instances in the Norman Collection of material labelled as “types’ which was collected after the species name was published (see also Thurston & Allen 1969). The type locality is the North Sea, off Banff, Scotland. Type material of synonyms The types of V. kroeyeri could not be located at the SMNH, ZMUC or in Uppsala and are considered lost. However, Stephensen (1923) mentions two specimens in the ZMUC which he believes might be types, marked “ V. borealis B&B?”, but these could not be located. The synonymy of V. kroeyeri has been confirmed by the examination of specimens in museum collections labelled either V. borealis or V. kroeyeri. Material examined (65 specimens) North Atlantic: 25 lots (ZMUC), several lots (USNM), 40 specimens. South Atlantic: 1 lot (ZMUC), 3 specimens. Mediterranean: 1 lot (ZMH), 1 lot (ZMUC), 11 specimens. Central Indo­Pacific: 1 lot (USNM), 11 specimens. Diagnosis Body length up to 13 mm, but usually 6–7 mm. Antennae 1 as long as head and first two pereonites in males, slightly less in females; ...