Exosphaeroma gigas (Leach, 1818)
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Exosphaeroma gigas (Leach, 1818) |
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Exosphaeroma gigas (Leach, 1818) View in CoL
Fig. 2E, F View Figure 2
Sphaeroma gigas Leach, 1818: 346-347; Desmarest 1825: 301; Milne-Edwards 1840: 205; White 1847: 102; Dana 1853: 775; Miers 1879: 202-203; Haswell 1882: 287; Studer 1884: 17-18; Dollfus 1891: 62, pl. 8a, fig. 6. Miers 1879: 202-203; Haswell 1882: 287; Studer 1884: 17-18; Dollfus 1891: 62, pl. 8a, fig. 6.
Sphaeroma jurinii .- Krauss, 1843: 65.
Sphaeroma propinqua .- Nicolet, 1849: 277-278.
Sphaeroma chilensis .- Dana, 1853: 195-196.
Sphaeroma obtusa .- Hutton, 1879 (in Chilton 1906).
Exosphaeroma gigas .- Stebbing, 1900: 553-558, pl. 39; Chilton 1906: 271-272; Ortmann 1911: 646-647; Vanhöffen 1914: 510-511; Tattersall 1921: 216; Giambiagi 1925: 235; Stephensen 1927: 362; Nierstrasz 1931: 194; Barnard 1940: 413, fig. 13; Hurley 1961: 269; Hale 1929: 275, fig. 273; Menzies 1962a: 132-134, fig. 43; Kussakin 1967: 235; Hurley and Jansen 1977: 58, fig. 52; Carvacho, 1977: 177-178; Kussakin and Vasina1980: 355-359; Brandt and Wägele 1989: 209-214. figs 5-9; Bruce 2003: 368.
Type locality.
Unknown; The Natural History Museum, syntypes: 1941: 6:27: 5 (presented by Leach) and 1979: 420: 1, Sir Joseph Banks collection ( Ellis 1981).
Material examined.
Chile. 22 ♂♂ (up to 24 mm), 50 ♀♀ (up to 18 mm); Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region, Picton Island; 7 Feb. 1970; E.L. Bousfield leg.; CMNC 1990-0090. 46 ♂♂ and ♀♀; Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region, Navarino Island; 29 Jan. 1970; E.L. Bousfield leg.; CMNC 1990-0092. 300 ♂♂ and ♀♀; Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region, Canal Beagle; 19 Feb. 1970; E.L. Bousfield leg.; CMNC 1990-0094. FALKLAND. 1♀ (16 mm); Atlantic Ocean , Falkland Island , East Falkland ; 1 Feb. 1969; S.W. Gorham leg.; CMNC 1992-0545. 9 ♂♂ and ♀♀ (up to 18 mm); East Falkland ; 25 Jan. 1967; S.W. Gorham leg.; CMNC 1992-0552 .
Distribution.
Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region, Tierra del Fuego, Falkland Islands, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Peru, South Africa, South Australia, New Zealand (Chatham Rise, Macquarie Island, Auckland Island, Campbell Island), Tasmania ( Dana 1853; Vanhöffen 1914; Tattersall 1914; Kussakin 1967; Brandt and Wägele 1989).
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Exosphaeroma gigas (Leach, 1818)
Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Valiallah & Gagnon, Jean-Marc 2023 |
Sphaeroma propinqua
Nicolet 1849 |
Sphaeroma gigas
Leach 1818 |