Phronimopsis spinifera Claus, 1879

Gasca, Rebeca & Hendrickx, Michel E., 2021, Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) in western Mexico. 3 Family Lestrigonidae, Zootaxa 4974 (1), pp. 169-187 : 180

Phronimopsis spinifera Claus, 1879

Phronimopsis spinifera Claus, 1879: 64 , pl. 1, figs. 1‒3; Siegel-Causey, 1992: 192; Vinogradov et al., 1996: 404, fig. 175; Zeidler, 2004: 33; Brusca & Hendrickx, 2005: 150 (list); García Madrigal, 2007: 151 (list); Lavaniegos & Hereu, 2009: 139‒142 (passim), 142 (tab. 1), 151 (Appendix 1); Valencia & Giraldo, 2009: 266, 268 (tab. 1), fig. 2; 2012: 1491‒1497 (passim), 1492 (tab. 1), 1496 (tab. 3), figs. a, 7c; Lavaniegos, 2014: 1‒7 (passim), 4 (tab. 1), 10 (tab. 4), fig. 5; 2017: 18 (tab. 2), fig. 7.

Phronimopsis sarsi Bovallius, 1887: 23 .

Material examined. 12M, 4F, in 7 localities ( Fig. 7 ). TALUD III, St. 19 (25°12’00”N, 109°07’00”W), August 20, 1991 , 1M, 2F, I-K, surface to 410 m (TD, 920 m) (ICML-EMU-12808A); St. 19B (25°18’24”N, 109°18’36”W), August 20, 1991, 1M, I-K, from surface to 600 m (TD, 1890 m) (ICML-EMU-12808B). TALUD IV. St. 15 (23°23’30”N, 107°47’48”W), August 24, 2000 , 1F, MN, from surface to 1500 m (TD, 2350 m) (ECO-CH-Z-10396) . TALUD V. St. 29 (25°14’36”N, 109°24’15”W), December 17, 2000 , 1M, MN, from surface to 1290 m (TD, 2040 m) (ICML-EMU-12809) . TALUD XI. St. 6A (16°58’00”N, 100°57’00”W), June 7, 2007 , 4M, MN, from surface to 1400 m (TD, 1960 m) (ICML-EMU-12810A); St. 19B (17°56’00”N, 103°10’00”W), June 9, 2007 , 2M and 1F, MN, from surface to 1490 m (TD, 1750 m) (ICML-EMU-12810B) . TALUD XII. St. 4 (16°59’39”N, 100°58’07”W), March 28, 2008 , 3M, MN, from surface to 1200 m (TD, 1995 m) (ECO-CH-Z-20397) .

Distribution. Indian and Pacific Oceans ( Vinogradov et al. 1996). In the eastern Pacific from British Colombia, Canada, to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico ( García Madrigal 2007).

Remarks. Phronimopsis spinifera has been reported by Siegel-Causey (1982) in the central and southern Gulf of California, occasionally abundant but little frequent. Recorded between surface and to 300–500 m depth ( Vinogradov et al. 1996, García Madrigal 1982). Related to the California Current system ( Bowman 1973, Lavaniegos 2014).

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FIGURE 7. Localities where Lestrigonus schoemakeri, Phronimopsis spinifera, and Themistella fusca were captured during this survey. x 2: two samples at same localities in different cruises.