Decapoda - Dendrobranchiata - Sergestidae - Phorcosergia
| Phorcosergia potens (Burkenroad, 1940) |
World Distribution
Pérez Farfante & Kensley (1997); Vereshchaka (1990; 2000) - South-west Atlantic off Brazil and Argentina; South-east Atlantic; south-west Indian Ocean; New Zealand; Seamounts Sala y Gòmez and south-western part of Nazca ridge, 21°41'-25°58'S / 81°19'-100°41'W). - Bathypelagic (200-300 m at night and 1000-2000 m during the day). Pelagic, thus probably whole French Polynesia (Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, Marquesas, Austral)
Vereshchaka (2000, Galathea Report), according to Fig. 38, p. 130, Atlantic South-East, Indo-West Pacific, potentially Réunion, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna, French Polynesia.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Pelagic or bathypelagic
Vertical range : Pelagic or bathypelagic - Min-Max observed: 200-2000 m
Réunion data
Sergia potens - Vereshchaka (2000, Galathea Report), according to Fig. 38, p. 130, Atlantic South-East, Indo-West Pacific, potentially Réunion, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna, French Polynesia.
New Caledonia data
Sergia potens - Vereshchaka (2000, Galathea Report), according to Fig. 38, p. 130, Atlantic South-East, Indo-West Pacific, potentially Réunion, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna, French Polynesia.
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
EASTER ISLAND - Sergestes? potens - Vereshchaka, 1990: 138 (Seamounts Sala y Gòmez and south-western part of Nazca ridge, 21°41'-25°58'S / 81°19'-100°41'W; 230-2000 m). - Sergestes robustus Smith, 1882 - Vereshchaka, 1990: 138 (Seamounts Sala y Gòmez and south-western part of Nazca ridge, 22°06'S / 81°19'W; 230-2000 m); Not Sergia robusta (Smith, 1882) fide Vereshchaka, 2000: 157 (under Sergia robusta): "The record by Vereshchaka, (1990b) from the area of the Nazca and Sala-y-Gomez ridges is an error, as this species now appears to be one of those briefly described by Burkenroad (1940), being juveniles of S. maxima and S. potens." - Sergia potens - Vereshchaka, 2000: 139 (Geographic distribution; Syn.). - FRENCH POLYNESIA - Sergia potens - Vereshchaka, 2000: 139, fig. 38, 45-46 (Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, including off New Zealand and over Nazca and Sala-y-Gomez ridges; probably also French Polynesia and Easter Island; 200-2000m).
WALLIS & FUTUNA - Sergia potens - Vereshchaka (2000, Galathea Report), according to Fig. 38, p. 130, Atlantic South-East, Indo-West Pacific, potentially Réunion, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna, French Polynesia.
Comment(s) on data
New genus Phorcosergia Vereshchaka, Olesen & Lunina, 2014 (Plos One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112057)
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database