Vibilia edwardsi Bate

Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2003, A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Vibilioidea Bowman and Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), Zootaxa 280 (1), pp. 1-104 : 75

Vibilia edwardsi Bate

Vibilia edwardsi Bate, 1861: 2–4 , pl. 1, figs 1, 2. — Bate 1862: 300–302, pl. 49, figs 6, 7. Streets 1877: 128. Bovallius 1887c: 62­63, text fig. Behning 1913b: 216–217.

Type material

Type material could not be located at the BMNH or MNHN and is presumed lost. The type locality is given as the South Atlantic Ocean , “Near Iles de Powel” (South Orkney Islands) .

Remarks

This is most likely V. antarctica as suggested by Barnard (1932) and Vinogradov et al. (1982). However, Bate figures and describes pereopods 5 and 6 as being twice as long as pereopods 3 and 4, which is unlike any species of Vibilia . Also, the carpal process of gnathopod 2 is too short for typical V. antarctica . Thus, Vibilia edwardsi is at best, a doubtful synonym of V. antarctica .