Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, 1881

Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, 1881 View in CoL

Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, 1881: 246–247 View in CoL , L. 1, fig. 2, L. 4, figs. 9–12, L. 5, fig. 32; Stock, 1978b; 400–402, fig. 2m.

Type locality— Blake, Stn. 338, 38º18'40"N 73º18'10"W, 1686.15 m

Material examined. Maroc-0411: MO04, 5♂, 1 indet; MO27, 1♀; MO28, 2♂; MO31, 1♀; MO32, 1♂; MO48, 1♂; MO61, 1♂; MO65, 1♂; MO82, 1♂; MO84, 8♂, 1♀; MO86, 1♂; MO88, 3♂, 1♀; MO89, 9♂, 2♀. Maroc- 0511: MO95, 1♀; MO98, 1♂, 1♀; MO99, 1♀; MO105, 2♂; MO106, 2♂; MO109, 3♂; MO114, 1♂; MO156, 1♂; MO158: 1♂; 1♂, 1♀ . Maroc-0611: MO193, 1♂; MO200, 1♂; MO207, 7♂, 1♀, 2 indet; MO208, 2♂; MO212, 3♂; MO216, 3♂; MO217, 2♂, 1♀; MO219, 4♂, 3♀; MO223, 1♂; MO229, 2♀; MO232, 1♂; MO233, 5♂, 1♀; MO236, 1♀; MO238, 1♂; MO239, 2♂, 1 indet; MO240, 2♂; MO242, 3♂, 1♀; MO243, 2♂, 1♀; MO244, 2♂, 1♀; MO245, 1♀; MO249, 1♀; MO250, 1♂, 1♀; MO258, 1♀; MO259, 1♂, 1♀, 1 indet; MO260, 1♂, 1♀; MO261, 1♂; MO264, 3♂, 1♀; MO265, 1♂; MO266, 5♂; MO267, 2♂, 2♀. Maurit-1107: MU004 , 1♂ ; MU006 , 3♂ , 1 indet; MU009 , 1♂ ; MU012 , 1 indet ; MU013 , 1♂ ; MU022 , 1♀ ; MU025 , 1♂ ; MU027 , 2♂ ; MU029 , 2♂ ; MU030 , 1♂ ; MU031 , 1♂ ; MU033 , 2♂ ; MU039 , 1 indet ; MU041 , 4♂ ; MU047 , 1♂ ; MU049 , 1♂ ; MU050 , 2♂ ; MU053 , 1♂ ; MU054 , 2♂ ; MU055 , 1♂ ; MU056 , 2♂ ; MU058 , 1♂ ; MU060 , 1♂ ; MU061 , 1♂ ; MU062 , 2♂ ; MU063 , 1♂ ; MU065 , 4♂ ; MU066 , 3♂ ; MU067 , 1 indet ; MU068 , 1♂ ; MU069 , 1♂ ; MU071 , 1♂ ; MU075 , 2♂ . Maurit-0811: MU080 , 1♂ ; MU081 , 1♂ ; MU092 , 1♂ , 1 indet; MU093 , 3♂, 1♀ ; MU095 , 2♂ ; MU110 , 1♂ ; MU116 , 1♂ ; MU117 , 1♂ ; MU163 , 1♂ . Maurit- 0911: MU193 , 1 indet ; MUBV07 , 1♂ ; MUBV12 , 2♂ . BISSAU-0810: BS156, 1♂; BS165, 1♂; BS166, 1♂.

Remarks. Our material agrees with the description and figures of the holotype provided by Wilson (1881).

Habitat. Species collected from a wide variety of bottoms: rocky, muddy, clay, with foraminifera, pteropods, shells and sponge spicules ( Bouvier 1917; Stock 1987; 1988; 1990; Forsterra et al. 2013), between 18.3 and 4850 m. Our material was collected from 414 and 1835 m.

Geographical distribution. Cosmopolitan species in cold and deep waters. Colossendeis macerrima has been collected from Iceland ( Norman 1908), Ireland ( Bamber &Thurston 1995; Bamber 2002), the English Channel ( Stock 1984), France ( Bouvier 1917; 1923; Bamber 1983), Iberian Peninsula ( Caullery 1896; Fage 1942; Stock 1978; 1990; Bamber & Thurston 1995; Soler-Membrives & Munilla 2015), Azores ( Stock 1990; Bamber 2002), Morocco ( Stock 1987; Bamber &Thurston 1993), Western Sahara ( Bouvier 1937), Bank of Arguin ( Mauritania) ( Stock 1990); Senegal ( Bouvier 1937), and South Africa ( Flynn 1928; Barnard 1954, Stock 1963; 1981; Munilla 1988) in the East Atlantic, and from New Scotland ( Hedgpeth 1948), Florida, Panama, Venezuela and Guyana ( Stock 1975) in the West Atlantic. 1986). In the Pacific Ocean it is known from the Bering Sea ( Child 1995), the North Pacific Basin ( Turpaeva 1994), Japan ( Hedgpeth 1949, Nakamura & Child 1991; Miyazaki 2022), Melanesia ( Child 1982; Stock 1997; Bamber 2004; 2013), New Caledonia (Stock 1994), Australia ( Clark 1963; Stock 1991), New Zealand (Child 1990; Munilla & Soler-Membrives 2009), California and Oregon ( Child 1994), Gulf of Panama ( Schimkewitsch 1893; Fage 1956; Stock 1975), Chile (Child 1992; Weis & Melzer 2012; Forsterra et al. 2013; Araya 2016); also recorded from the Andaman and Laccadives Seas ( Calman 1923) and Mozambique Channel ( Fage 1956; Stock 1994) in the Indian Ocean. Our specimens were collected along all the study area, from Morocco to Guinea-Bissau.