Bathypallenopsis scoparia ( Fage, 1956 )

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, Zootaxa 2787, pp. 55-67 : 64-65

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.201969
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6192828
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scientific name	Bathypallenopsis scoparia ( Fage, 1956 )
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Bathypallenopsis scoparia ( Fage, 1956) View in CoL

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 View in CoL , 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.