Neognathophausia gigas
Creators: name: Hendrickx, Michel E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Lophogastrida
Lophogastridae
Neognathophausia
Neognathophausia gigas

description: Neognathophausia gigas (Willemoes-Suhm, 1873)
Gnathophausia gigas Willemoes-Suhm, 1873: 400, figs. 4–5.
Gnathophausia gigas.―Willemoes-Suhm, 1874: iii; 1875b: 28, 37, pl. IX, figs. 16–17, pl. X, figs. 2, 2a, 3.― Humbert, 1874: 206.―G.O. Sars, 1883: 5; 1885: 33, pl. III.― Stebbing, 1893: 260.― Ortmann, 1905: 968; 1906: 36, pl. 2, figs. 1a–b; 1908: 1.― Zimmer, 1909: 33, figs. 48–51.―W.M. Tattersall, 1913: 868; 1925: 3; 1939: 225.― Hansen, 1927: 17, pl. I, fig. 4a–d.― Stephensen, 1933: 9.―W.M. Tattersall, 1933: 185; 1939: 225.― Fage, 1941: 24, fig. 26.― Nouvel, 1943: 12, pl. 1, figs. 5–11; 1950: 3, figs. 13–16 (fiche 19).― Banner, 1948: 357 –358, pl. I, fig. 1a–c; 1954: 578.―W.M. Tattersall, 19 51: 26.―W.M. Tattersall & O.S. Tattersall, 1951: 77, fig. 1a–d, 2a–d.―O.S. Tattersall, 1955: 36, Table 2.― Gordan, 1957: 332.―Birstein & Tchindonova, 1958: 260, 338, fig. 46; 1962: 58.― Clarke, 1961: 313 –324 (passim), figs. 1–8, Table I– IV.― Pequegnat, 1965: 400, 402 (key), 408, fig. 5, Tables 1, 3, 411–420 (passim).― Holthuis & Sivertsen, 1967: 40.― Taniguchi, 1969: 44, fig. 2a–c.― Mauchline, 1973: 803.― Ledoyer, 1977: 253; 1995: 602, 614.― Mauchline & Murano, 1977: 57.― Udrescu, 1984: 65, fig. 5A.― Kathman et al., 1986: 158.― Lagardère, 1983: 810.― Casanova et al., 1998: 60.― van der Land & Brattegard, 2001: 293 (list).― Haroun & Garrido, 2003: 68.― Brusca & Hendrickx, 2005: 141.― Price et al., 2009: 924 (passim), 927 (list).― Meland & Aas, 2013: 200, fig. 1, 219 (key).― Wittmann et al., 2014: 349 (list).
Gnathopausia gigas.― Fowler, 1912: 539.― Illig, 1930: 408.― Stephensen, 1933: 9.
Gnathophausia sp.― Smith, 1884: 55.― Verrill, 1885: 556.
Gnathophausia drepanophora Holt & Tattersall, 1905: 113, pl. XVIII.― Ortmann, 1906: 38.― Zimmer, 1909: 33, figs. 52–53.
Neognathophausia gigas.― Petryashov, 1992: 47 –48, pl. 1, figs. 1–5; 2014: 185; 2015: 242 (list).― Wittmann & Wirtz, 1998: 512 (list).― Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 426.― Sawamoto, 2015: 4, Table 1.― Sawamoto & Fukuoka, 2005: 81, Table 1.― Ibarra Rivera & Hendrickx, 2008: 57 (list), 65 (key), 75, figs. 24, 25A–D.― Fukuoka, 2009: 405, 406 (Table 1).― Wittmann & Riera, 2012: 70.― San Vicente, 2016: 486, 495 (key).
Material examined. TALUD XV, St. 10 (24º20'42"N, 112º44'48"W), Jul 29, 2012, 1 juv. (CL 19 mm), BS operated at 2088–2125 m (ICML-EMU-12305).
Distribution. Semi-cosmopolitan, between 66°N and 48°S; Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans (Ibarra Rivera & Hendrickx 2008). According to Ibarra Rivera & Hendrickx (2008), G. gigas is commonly found in the California Current area. It is herein reported from a single locality along the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula (Fig. 6), which is less than expected.
Remarks. The rarity of specimens in the samples obtained off western Baja California contrasts with results obtained by Ibarra Rivera & Hendrickx (2008) who reported material from nine localities in the California Current area. These localities, however, were mostly further away from the coast line than in the present study (Fig. 5).
description: Published as part of Hendrickx, Michel E., 2019, Species of Gnathophausiidae (Crustacea, Lophogastrida) collected off the west coast of Baja California, Mexico, during the TALUD cruises, pp. 449-468 in Zootaxa 4609 (3) on page 456, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3227954