Vibilia stebbingi Behning & Woltereck 1912
- Dataset
- Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) in western Mexico. 6. Superfamily Vibilioidea. Families Paraphronimidae and Vibiliidae
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Vibiliidae
- genus
- Vibilia
- species
- Vibilia stebbingi
discussion
Remarks. According to Vinogradov et al. (1996) V. stebbingi is always caught in small numbers, as in the present survey. Siegel-Causey (1982) also reported this species as very rare in the Gulf of California, with only two records at the entrance of the Gulf. In Mexican waters, it has been more frequently recorded in the California Current. Shih & Hendrycks (2003) found this species from the surface to 200 m depth.
distribution
Distribution. Cosmopolitan in tropical and subtropical waters, including the Mediterranean Sea (Vinogradov et al. 1996). In the eastern Pacific it occurs between 19 ° N and 20 ° S, including off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula and in the Gulf of California (Shih & Hendrycks 2003, García Madrigal 2007).
materials_examined
Material examined. 1 M from one locality (Fig. 5). TALUD III. St. 3 B (22 ° 36 ’ 36 ” N, 106 ° 35 ’ 54 ” W), August 17, 1991, 1 M, IK from surface to 275 m (TD, ca. 650 m) (ICML-EMU- 12865).