Collettea cf. cylindrata ( G.O. Sars, 1882 )

Bird, Graham J., 2007, Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976 *, Zootaxa 1599, pp. 61-85 : 69-70

Collettea cf. cylindrata ( G.O. Sars, 1882)

Remarks. A Collettea species recorded under the obsolete name Strongylura cylindrata was reported from four ‘Vitjaz’ stations in the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench, at abyssal and hadal depths, 4895–6710 metres by Kudinova-Pasternak (1970). While not impossible, this record is doubtful since the nominal species is known primarily from West European waters and the NE Atlantic. Another species, Collettea larviformis , from 5000 metres near the Aleutians ( Kudinova-Pasternak 1973), is a possible synonymy for the Kurile-Kamchatka species. New material is required for unequivocal identification.