Bathypallenopsis scoparia Fage 1956

• Main Author: Bamber, Roger N
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Pycnogonida; Pantopoda; Pallenopsidae; Bathypallenopsis; Bathypallenopsis scoparia; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6192828; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A55BB523FFBDFF8CFF7B239C0D5BDB84

Bathypallenopsis scoparia (Fage, 1956) Pallenopsis scoparia Fage, 1956, 171-172; figs 1-4. Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 135 (key), 140–141; fig. 7C. Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) scoparia Bamber, 2002, 719-720; fig. 2. Bathypallenopsis scoparia Bamber, 2010, 184-185; fig. 216. Material. Solomon Islands: 13 (MNHN-IU-2007-4739), station CP2250, 07°29.2’S 156°16.7’E, XI 2004, depth 845–970 m, Ile Salomon. Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll. Remarks. A widely-distributed and quite distinctive species, known from the north-east Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Bahamas, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and thr Peru-Chile Trench, in a depth range of 400 to 1520 m (Bamber, 2010). This, the first record from Melanesian waters, is the second recorded male. Published as part of Bamber, Roger N, 2011, The male of Ascorhynchus constrictus Stock, 1997 (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida), with further new records of deep-sea pycnogonids from New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2787 on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201969