Bathypallenopsis scoparia (Fage, 1956)

Pallenopsis scoparia Fage, 1956, 171-172; figs 1-4. Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 135 (key), 140–141; fig. 7C. Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) scoparia Bamber, 2002, 719-720; fig. 2.

Bathypallenopsis scoparia Bamber, 2010, 184-185; fig. 216.

Material. Solomon Islands: 13 (MNHN-IU-2007-4739), station CP2250, 07°29.2’S 156°16.7’E, XI 2004, depth 845–970 m, Ile Salomon. Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.

Remarks. A widely-distributed and quite distinctive species, known from the north-east Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Bahamas, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and thr Peru-Chile Trench, in a depth range of 400 to 1520 m (Bamber, 2010). This, the first record from Melanesian waters, is the second recorded male.