Bathypallenopsis guineensis (Stock, 1974)

Bamber, Roger N, 2011, The male of Ascorhynchus constrictus Stock, 1997 (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida), with further new records of deep-sea pycnogonids from New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, Zootaxa 2787, pp. 55-67 : 64

Bathypallenopsis guineensis (Stock, 1974)

Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) guineensis Stock, 1974, 1049 –1050; fig. 40. Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 135 (in key), 139. Bathypallenopsis guineensis Bamber, 2010 , 176–177; fig. 212.

Material. Solomon Islands: 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4734), station CP2219, 07°50.3’S 157°34.4’E, XI 2004, depth 650– 636 m, New Georgia. 2 specimens (MNHN-IU-2007-4735), station CP2248, 07°42.5’S 156°24.8’E, 0 1 XI 2004, depth 650–673 m, Ile Salomon. All Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.

Remarks. Bathypallenopsis guineensis is a rarely-recorded deep-sea species, known previously only from Gulf of Guinea (type-locality) at 1949–1986 m depth, and in the north-east Atlantic at 1484–4320 m depth (Stock, 1974; Bamber & Thurston, 1995). These first records for the Melanesian region (and indeed the first for the Pacific Ocean) are from shallower waters, at 650– 673 m.