Mimonecteola macronyx Barnard

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Mimonecteolidae; Mimonecteola; Mimonecteola macronyx; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5328171; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5328171

Mimonecteola macronyx Barnard (Figs 38 & 39) Mimonecteola macronyx Barnard, 1932: 251–252, fig. 158. Vinogradov 1964: 124-125. Type material. The unique type, an immature male specimen measuring 9.3 mm, is in the BMNH (1936.77.2.247a), in spirit. The type locality is the eastern mid-Atlantic [02°49’S 09°25’W]; Discovery Stn. 287, 800– 1000 m, 19 Aug. 1927. Material examined. Types. The holotype as detailed above. Other material examined. North-East Atlantic: Two males, three females (ZMUC); W. of Sierra Leone [08°26’N 15°11’W]; Dana Stn. 4003 I, IV & V, 6000, 3000 & 2000 mw, 9 Mar. 1930. Two males (ZMUC); W. of Senegal [13°31’N 18°03’W]; Dana Stn. 4005 II, 3500 mw, 12 Mar. 1930. South-East Atlantic: Male, female, juvenile (ZMUC); off South Africa [23°26’S 03°56’E]; Dana Stn. 3980 VII, 5000 mw, 17 Feb. 1930. Male, female (ZMUC); S.W. of Gulf of Guinea [07°34’S 08°48’W]; Dana Stns 3998 IX & X, 3000 & 2000 mw, 1 Mar. 1930. North Pacific: Male, female (SAMA C6307); off Pismo Beach, California [35º50’N 122º40’W]; Monterey Bay Aquarium Res. Inst., 450-650 m, 15 May 2006. Male, two females (ZMUC); Gulf of Panama [06°48’N 80°33’W]; Dana Stns 1208 V & XIV, 3000 & 3100 mw, 16 Jun. 1922. South Pacific: Female (ZMUC); SE of Panama [00°18’S 99°07’W]; Dana Stn. 3558 II, 2000 mw, 18 Sept. 1928. Female (ZMUC); near Samoa [11°00’S 172°37’W]; Dana: Stn. 3587 IV, 3000 mw, 2 Nov. 1928. Juvenile (ZMUC); N. of New Zealand [25°47’S 172°24’E]; Dan a Stn. 3621 IV, 2000 mw, 8 Dec. 1928. Indo-Pacific: Female (ZMUC), Banda Sea [05°52’S 131°14’E]; Dana Stn. 3676 IX, 3000 mw, 23 Mar. 1929. Indian Ocean: Four males (ZMUC); S. of Nicobar Is. [05°18’N 90°55’E]; Dana: Stns 3904 II & IV, 3000 & 2000 mw, 18 Nov. 1929. Three females (ZMUC); S. of Sri Lanka [05°21’N 80°38’E]; Dana Stns 3909 IV & V, 3000 & 2500 mw, 22 Nov. 1929. Two females (ZMUC); N. of Madagascar [11°18’S 50°03’E]; Dana Stn. 3933 II, 3500 mw, 20 Dec. 1929. Diagnosis. Body length of females may exceed 12.0 mm, of males 11.0 mm. Antennae 1 ...