Trianguloscalpellum regium ( Wyville Thomson, 1873 )

Young, Paulo S., 2001, Deep-sea Cirripedia Thoracica (Crustacea) from the northeastern Atlantic collected by French expeditions, Zoosystema 23 (4), pp. 705-756 : 741

Trianguloscalpellum regium ( Wyville Thomson, 1873)

Scalpellum regium Wyville Thomson, 1873: 347 (description only, non figs 1, 2 = Trianguloscalpellum ovale [ Hoek, 1883]).

Trianguloscalpellum regium – Zevina 1978: 1350. — Young 1998a: 28, figs 20-22 (with synonymy); 1998b: 44; 1998c: 111, fig. 2c.

MATERIALEXAMINED. — BENGAL 2, stn 13078#27, 48°47.26’N, 16°34.01’W to 48°48.67’N, 16°31.76’W, 4844 m, 1 specimen, tl (cl) 56.8 (34.2) mm (MNHN Ci 2879).

BENGAL 3, stn 13200#93, 48°50.55’N, 16°25.30’W, 4844 m to 48°47.46’N, 16°30.42’W, 4849 m, 1 specimen, tl (cl) 71 mm (MNRJ 13917).

BENGAL 6, stn 13627#11, 48°47.82’N, 16°40.37’W, 4847 m, 2 specimens, tl (cl) 27.0 (20.7) to 27.9 (20.8) mm (MNHN Ci 2880, MNRJ 13878).

REMARKS

The taxonomy of Trianguloscalpellum regium was recently reviewed ( Young 1998a: 28). This species has been reported from all the oceans, but probably this distribution encompasses more than one species ( Young 1998a). It is frequently recorded from the abyssal plain of the North Atlantic.