Metalanceola chevreuxi Pirlot 1931

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Metalanceolidae; Metalanceola; Metalanceola chevreuxi; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5328104; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5328104

Metalanceola chevreuxi Pirlot (Figs 25 & 26) Metalanceola chevreuxi Pirlot, 1931: 1–7, fig 1–3. Pirlot 1939: 13–16, pl. 1, figs 6–8. Shoemaker 1945: 215. Vinogradov 1960a: 210–211, figs 6, 7; 1964: 118. Vinogradov et al. 1982: 86–88, figs 27, 28. Type material. The unique male holotype is in the MOM (37 2105) mounted on microscope slides. According to Pirlot (1931) the specimen measured 4 mm from the head to the bend of the abdomen, but the total length is about 6 mm, according to the scales with his illustration of the whole animal. The type locality is the North Atlantic, near Madeira [31°06’N 24°06’45”W]; Princesse Alice II Stn. 1781 (not 1871 as published), 0–5000 m, 21 Aug. 1904. Material examined. North-East Atlantic: Female (ZMUC); W. of Sierra Leone [08°26’N 15°11’W]; Dana Stn. 4003 V, 2000 mw, 9 Mar.1930. Two males, two females (ZMUC); Bay of Biscay [46°28’N 08°01’W]; Dana Stns 4158 XVI & XXII, 2000 & 5500 mw, 17 Jun. 1930. South–East Atlantic: Male (ZMUC); off Gabon [04°00’S 08°25’E]; Galathea Stn. 66, 6300 mw, 5 Dec. 1950. Three males (ZMUC); off South Africa [23°26’S 03°56’E]; Dana Stn. 3980 X, 2000 mw, 17 Feb. 1930. South-East Pacific: Male (ZMUC); tropical S.E. Pacific [04°20’S 116°46’W]; Dana Stn. 3561 IV, 2000 mw, 24 Sept. 1928. Central South Pacific: Male (ZMUC): N. of Tahiti [14°01’S 147°51.5’W]; Dana Stn. 3570 II, 3000 mw, 7 Oct. 1928. Male, female (ZMUC); N. of Cook Is. [18°53’S 163°02.5’W]; Dana Stn. 3580 IX, 2000 mw, 25 Oct. 1928. Male (ZMUC); E. of New Caledonia [20°00’S 174°29’E]; Dana Stn. 3602 VII, 3000 mw, 22 Nov. 1928. Male, female (ZMUC CRU-9931); N. of New Zealand [28° 17.6’S 177° 01’E]; Dana: Stn. 3624 IV, 2000 mw, 10 Dec. 1928. West Indian: Male (ZMUC); btwn. Maldive Is. & Madagascar [01°06’S 62°25’E]; Dana Stn. 3920 VI, 1000 mw, 9 Dec. 1929. Diagnosis. Body length up to 8 mm. Cuticle relatively thin, without keels or spines. Head relatively short, without rostrum. Pereon slightly inflated, more so in females than males. Pereonite 2 projected forward dorsally over ...