Callipallene producta ( Sars, 1888 )

Callipallene producta ( Sars, 1888) View in CoL

Pallene producta Sars, 1888: 342 View in CoL ; Sars, 1891: 36–37, L. III, figs. 2a–d.

Callipallene brevirostris producta View in CoL — Stock, 1952: 6, figs. 9–11.

Callipallene producta View in CoL — Munilla & Soler-Membrives, 2014:166–169, figs. 90–91.

Type locality— Western coast of Norway, 60–100 m.

Material examined. Maurit-0811: MU131 , 1♂. Maurit-0911: MU184 , 1 juvenile. MUBV08 , 1♀. BISSAU-0810: BS152, 1♀ juvenile .

Remarks. Our material agrees with the description and figures given by Sars (1891). The juveniles show a shorter neck than the adults, as it is described by Stock (1952).

Habitat. This species is frequent in the shelf and continental slope from brown algae ( Lehmann et al. 2014), calcareous nodules ( Stock 1990), foraminifera, corals and sandy bottoms ( Stock 1987) between 3 and 1900 m. Our specimens have been collected between 102 and 303 m.

Geographical distribution. Atlantic species mainly distributed in the northeast area, where had been collected from Norway ( Sars 1888; Rigvold et al. 2015), Ireland ( Bamber & Thurston 1995), the English Channel ( Stock 1987), the Iberian Peninsula ( Soler-Membrives & Munilla 2015), Gibraltar ( Stock 1987), south of Morocco ( Bamber & Thurston 1993), the Canary Islands ( Munilla & Soler-Membrives 2014) and Cape Verde Islands ( Stock 1990). Also reported in the western Mediterranean Sea ( Munilla 1993; Lehmann et al. 2014; Soler-Membrives & Munilla 2015) and from the South of Brazil ( Stock 1992) in the West Atlantic. Our specimens have been collected in the South of Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau.