Vibilia stebbingi Behning & Woltereck 1912

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Vibiliidae; Vibilia; Vibilia stebbingi; Pacific; Indian; Kane; Hurley; Chevreux; Thurston; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5087689; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5087689

Vibilia stebbingi Behning & Woltereck (Figs 24 & 25) Vibilia stebbingi Behning & Woltereck, 1912: 5–6, figs 1­3. — Behning 1913a: 529, 533. Behning 1913b: 217–218. Stephensen 1918: 40–41, fig. 12. Behning 1925: 482–484, figs 13–22. Behning 1927: 118, 121 (Table). Pirlot 1929: 96–97. Barnard 1930: 403­404. Chevreux 1935: 175. Hurley 1960b: 279. Grice & Hart 1962: 300. Kane 1962: 298–299. Hurley 1969: 33, pl. 18 (map­part). Dick 1970: 34 (key), 53. Semenova 1973: 172. Semenova 1976: 138, 139 (Table). Thurston 1976: 404–405. Madin & Harbison 1977. 453 (Table 2), 454. Shulenberger 1977: 378 (Table). Tranter 1977: 647, 648 (Table). Brusca 1981: 18 (key), 39. Vinogradov et al. 1982: 206–208, fig. 103. Barkhatov & Vinogradov 1988: 168 (Table), 172, 176. Vinogradov 1990a: 55, 93 (Table). Zeidler 1992: 96. De Broyer & Jazdzewski 1993: 112. Shih & Chen 1995: 52­ 53, figs 28–29. Zeidler 1998: 37, 41. Barkhatov et al. 1999: 808 (Table). Vinogradov 1999: 1180, fig. 4.89. Type material Four syntypes of V. stebbingi are in the ZMB (unregistered). Behning and Woltereck (1912) do not specify a holotype. They record six specimens from the mid­Atlantic, from Valdivia Stns 48b (0º9’S, 8º30’W), 49 (0º20’N, 6º45’W), 54 (1º51’N, 0º31’E) and 55 (2º37’N, 3º38’E). The figured female is from Stn. 54. Material examined (> 300 specimens) Types. Four syntypes of V. stebbingi from Valdivia Stns 48b, 54 and 55: all in spirit, the one from Stn. 54 with head missing. Other material examined. Tasman Sea: 7 lots (SAMA), 11 specimens. North Atlantic: 5 lots (BMNH), 13 lots (CMN), 3 lots (USNM), 7 lots (ZMB), 3 lots (ZMUC), 48 specimens. South Atlantic: 1 lot (BMNH), 28 lots (SAM), numerous specimens. North Pacific: 1 lot (LACM), 3 lots (USNM), 10 specimens. South Pacific: 2 lots (BMNH), 23 specimens. South Indian: 1 lot (BMNH), 63 lots (SAM), 10 lots (SAMA), 174 specimens. Central Indo­Pacific: 1 lot (USNM), 1 specimen. Gulf of Eilat: 1 lot (ZMB), 1 specimen. Diagnosis Body length up to 5–6 mm. Antennae 1 length ...