Hyperietta vosseleri (Stebbing 1904)
- Dataset
- Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) in western Mexico. 3 Family Lestrigonidae
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Amphipoda
- family
- Lestrigonidae
- genus
- Hyperietta
- species
- Hyperietta vosseleri
discussion
Remarks. In the 150 ‒ 450 m depth range (Siegel-Causey 1992); 0 ‒ 200 m (Vinogradov et al. 1996, García-Madrigal 2007). Highly abundant in the Mexican tropical Pacific area during ENSO conditions (Gasca et al. 2012).
distribution
Distribution. Cosmopolitan in warm waters. In the eastern Pacific from California, USA, to western Baja California and Gulf of California, Mexico (Brusca & Hendrickx 2005, García-Madrigal 2007). Another abundant lestrigonid in the Central Pacific gyre, H. vosseleri has been reported as relatively common in the central and southern Gulf of California (Siegel-Causey 1992).
materials_examined
Material examined. 8 M, 2 F, in six localities (Fig. 2). TALUD III, St. 19 (25 ° 12 ’ 00 ” N, 109 ° 07 ’ 00 ” W), August 20, 1991, 2 M, 1 F, I-K, surface to 410 m (TD, 920 m) (ECO-CH-Z- 10384); St. 19 B (25 ° 18 ’ 24 ” N, 109 ° 18 ’ 36 ” W), August 20, 1991, 1 M, I-K, from surface to 600 m (TD, 1890 m) (ICML-EMU- 12776 A). TALUD IV, St. 7 (22 ° 00 ’ 22 ” N, 106 ° 49 ’ 18 ” W), August 23, 2000, 1 M, MN, from surface to 500 m (TD, 1970 m) (ICML-EMU- 12776 B). TALUD VI. St. 22 (24 ° 17 ’ 34 ” N, 108 ° 50 ’ 25 ” W), March 15, 2001, 1 F, MN, from surface to 1410 m (TD, 1760 m) (ICML-EMU- 12776 C). TALUD XI. St. 6 A (16 ° 58 ’ 00 ” N, 100 ° 57 ’ 00 ” W), June 7, 2007, 2 M, MN, from surface to 1400 m (TD, 1960 m) (ICML-EMU- 12777 A); St. 19 B (16 ° 59 ’ 39 ” N, 100 ° 58 ’ 07 ” W), March 28, 2008, 2 M, MN, from surface to 1200 m (TD, 1995 m) (ICML-EMU- 12777 B).