Vibilia antarctica Stebbing, 1888: 1290 - 1293

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Vibiliidae; Vibilia; Vibilia antarctica; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Pacific; Hurley; Nagata; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5087679; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5087679

Vibilia antarctica Stebbing (Figs 20 & 21) Vibilia antarctica Stebbing, 1888: 1290–1293, pl. 150. — Behning & Woltereck 1912: 9–11, fig. 11. Chilton 1912: 514. Behning 1913a: 529­530, 533. Behning 1913b: 219. Behning 1925: 486­ 488, figs 26–31. Behning 1927: 118–119, 121 (Table). Barnard 1930: 404. Barnard 1932: 263– 264. Hurley 1960a: 110. Hurley 1960b: 278. Vinogradov 1962: 16. Hurley 1969: 33, pl. 18 (map 3). Dick 1970: 51. Semenova 1973: 171. Semenova 1976: 138. Vinogradov et al. 1982: 208–211, fig. 104. Barkhatov & Vinogradov 1988: 168 (Table), 170, 172, 176, 177. Jazdzewski & Presler 1988: 63, 66–70, figs 3, 4. Andres 1990: 141, fig. 281. Vinogradov 1990: 55. Weigmann­Haass 1990: 419–426, figs 1–23. De Broyer & Jazdzewski 1993: 111. Barkhatov et al. 1999: 808 (Table). Vinogradov 1999: 1178–1179, fig. 4.79. ? Vibilia sp. Stebbing, 1888: 1293. Vibilia stebbingi [misidentification]. — Hurley 1955: 125–129, fig. 1. Hurley 1960a: 111. Vinogradov 1962: 15–16. Nagata 1986: 268–270, figs 8–9. Type material The unique type of V. antarctica is in the BMNH (89.5.15.182), recorded from the Antarctic, 52º4’S, 71º22’E, surface. Material examined (> 150 specimens) Types. The unique holotype of V. antarctica, Challenger, 2 nd February, 1874: juvenile specimen on two microscope slides, head, G1 & 2, P3–7 and pleon. Other material examined. Antarctic: 1 lot (BMNH), 12 lots (SAMA), 2 lots (USNM), 1 lot (ZMB), 1 lot (ZMH), 69 specimens. South Atlantic: 23 lots (BMNH), 1 lot (USNM), 1 lot (ZMB), 1 lot (ZMH), 1 lot (ZMUC), numerous specimens. South Pacific: 1 lot (BMNH), 6 specimens. Diagnosis Body length up to 17 mm. Antennae 1 as long as head and first two pereonites; flagellum with more or less parallel margins, obliquely truncate ventrally for distal third (slightly more acute in males). Gnathopod 2; carpal process reaches to dactylus, or slightly beyond. Pereopods 3 & 4; dactylus length about 0.3–0.5x propodus. Pereopods 5 & 6; dactylus length about 0.3x propodus. Pereopod 7; basis with ...