Vibilia pyripes Bovallius, 1887

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Vibilia pyripes Bovallius, 1887

Vibilia pyripes Bovallius, 1887: 10 ; Brusca, 1981: 18 (key), 39, figs. 4g, i; Vinogradov et al., 1996: 243 (key), 282‒284, fig. 115; García Madrigal, 2007: 145 (list); Shih & Hendrycks, 2003: 255 (tab. 1), 256 (tab. 2), 292 (key), 270, figs. 1, 2; Zeidler, 2003: 13 (key), 36‒40, figs. 14‒15; Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 151 (appendix 1); Valencia & Giraldo, 2012: 1492 (tab. 1); Valencia et al., 2013: 51 (tab. 1).

Vibilia grandicornis Chevreux, 1900: 131‒134 , pl. 16, fig. 2.

Material examined. 1M and 1F from one locality ( Fig. 5 ). TALUD XII. St. 4 (16°59’39”N, 100°58’07”W), March 28, 2008, 1M, 1F, MN from surface to 1200 m ( TD, 1995 m) (ICML-EMU-12864) .

Distribution. Tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, tropical water of the Indian Ocean, and in part of the Pacific, in SE of Japan, S of New Zealand, and in the eastern tropics ( Vinogradov et al. 1996). In the eastern Pacific it ranges from 33°N to 20°S, including off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula ( Shih & Hendrycks 2003, García Madrigal 2007) and in the Gulf of California (present study).

Remarks. This species was not recorded by Siegel-Causey (1982) in his Gulf of California survey and only once during our survey. Shih & Hendrycks (2003) found it mostly in depth shallower than 250 m, with one exception at 1253– 1207 m.

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FIGURE 5. Localities where Vibilia pyripes Bovallius, 1887, and V. stebbingi Behning & Woltereck, 1912, were captured during this survey.