Colossendeis cucurbita Cole, 1909

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 : 61

Colossendeis cucurbita Cole, 1909

Cole, 1909, 188–191; Pl. 2, figs 3, 4; Pl. 3, figs 8–12. Stock, 1978b, 405–408; fig. 2 (literature & synonymy). Bamber, 1985, 305. Bamber & Thurston, 1993, 859. Bamber & Thurston, 1995, 144 (key), 147–148; fig. 9 B. Bamber, 2004a, 7. Bamber, 2010, 50–51; fig. 88.

Material. Solomon Islands: 1 specimen (MNHN-IU-2007-4747), station CP2253, 07°26.5’S 156°15.0’E, 0 2 XI 2004, depth 1200–1218 m, Ile Salomon. Bouchet, Warén & Samedi-IRD coll.

Remarks. An infrequently recorded, large (adult body length about 20 mm) abyssal species, not recorded previously from Melanesian waters, but known from the north and south Atlantic and the north and south Pacific Oceans, at depths between 1300 and 4500 m.