Pentapycnon geayi Bouvier, 1911

Sabroux, Romain, Hassanin, Alexandre & Corbari, Laure, 2022, Sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) collected during the Madibenthos Expedition from Martinique shallow waters, European Journal of Taxonomy 851 (1), pp. 1-141 : 106

Pentapycnon geayi Bouvier, 1911

Pentapycnon geayi Bouvier, 1911a: 491–494 .

Pentapycnon geayi – Bouvier 1911b: 1140; 1913: 161–166, figs 105–109. — Hedgpeth 1948: 281, fig. 53. — Stock 1975a: 1088; 1986: tab. 1; 1992a: 137–139. — Cano-Sánchez & López-González 2007: tab. 1. — Krapp & Viquez 2011: 205–206, tab. 1. — Soler-Membrives & Munilla 2015: tab. 2. — Rabay et al. 2017: 1–3, figs 1–4. — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a: 113. — Lucena et al. 2019: 3 (list), 19, 21. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: tab. 1, fig. 3.

Type material

Syntypes: MNHN PY566-569 (examined). Type locality: Cayenne, French Guiana.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♀; Pointe Baham ; 14°24.7ʹ N, 60°50.1ʹ W; depth 2 m; 11 Sep. 2016; st. AB117; MNHN-IU-2016-4187/ MK411112 .

Remarks

Pentapycnon geayi is one of the few polymerous species in the world, and one of two known outside of the Southern Ocean, with the other being Pentacolossendeis reticulata Hedgpeth, 1943 ( Arnaud & Bamber 1987). The two other known species of Pentapycnon have only been reported from the Southern Ocean ( Child 1995). The species is here recorded for the first time in Martinique. The single specimen was collected on the southern Atlantic coast of Martinique.

Distribution

Recorded from Tropical West Atlantic ( Puerto Rico, French Guiana, Surinam, Brazil) and Spanish Mediterranean coast ( Gibraltar and Alboran Sea).

Depth range

5– 70 m. We extend this depth range to 2 m.