Vibilia chuni 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 chuni
discussion
Remarks. According to Vinogradov et al. (1996), V. chuni always occurs in small numbers. Present records confirm this suggestion. Shih & Hendrycks (2003) collected this species from surface to 230 m depth.
distribution
Distribution. Circumtropical (Vinogradov et al. 1996). In the eastern Pacific it ranges from off the Baja California Peninsula and in the Gulf of California south to Gorgona Island, Colombia (García- Madrigal 2007, Valencia & Giraldo 2012), with one isolated record at 35 ° 18 ’ N (Shih & Hendrycks 2003).
materials_examined
Material examined. 2 M and 3 F from three localities (Fig. 3). TALUD V. St. 5 (22 ° 00 ’ 57 ” N, 106 ° 40 ’ 00 ” W), December 13, 2000, 3 F, MN from surface to ca. 1400 m (TD> 1600 m) (ICML-EMU- 12850). TALUD VI. St. 22 (24 ° 17 ’ 34 ” N, 108 ° 50 ’ 25 ” W), March 15, 2001, 1 M, MN from surface to 1410 m (TD, 1760 m) (ICML-EMU- 12851); St. 29 (25 ° 16 ’ 24 ” N, 109 ° 24 ’ 54 ” W), March 16, 2001, 1 M, MN from surface to 1440 m (TD, 2080 m) (ECO-CH-Z- 10552).
Name
- Synonyms
- Vibilia hodgsoni Stewart 1913
- Homonyms
- Vibilia chuni Behning & Woltereck 1912