Anoplodactylus massiliformis Stock, 1975

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 : 92-93

Anoplodactylus massiliformis Stock, 1975

Anoplodactylus massiliformis Stock, 1975a: 1063–1066 , figs 48–49.

Anoplodactylus massiliformis – Stock 1986: 439. — Child 1979: 56. — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a: 103 , 112. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: tab. 1, fig. 3.

Type material

Holotype: NL ZMA.PYC.P.1091 (not examined). Type locality: off the mouth of the Amazon River , Brazil.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♂; Rocher du Diamant; 14°26.5ʹ N, 61°02.4ʹ W; depth 26–32 m; 14 Sep. 2016; st. AS 071; MNHN-IU-2016-1051/ MK411037 • 1 ♂; Anse Couleuvre; 14°50.4ʹ N, 61°13.4ʹ W; depth 7 m; 1 Oct. 2016; st. AB463; MNHN-IU-2016-1124/ MK411055 • 1 juv.; Trois Rivières; 14°27.5ʹ N, 60°58.2ʹ W; depth 17–19 m; 9 Oct. 2016; st. AS 579; MNHN-IU-2016-1128/ MK411057 • 1 juv.; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle; 14°44.1ʹ N, 60°50.8ʹ W; depth 29 m; 18 Sep. 2016; st. AS 253; MNHN-IU-2016-1263 .

Remarks

This is the first record of this species in Martinique. The four specimens were collected at very different locations around the Island, on both the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts.

Distribution

Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Caribbean ( Barbados, Martinique, Panama, Aruba), Panama Canal.

Depth range

0– 100 m.