Anoplodactylus insignis (Hoek, 1881)

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 : 87

Anoplodactylus insignis (Hoek, 1881)

Phoxichilidium insigne Hoek, 1881b: 82–84 , pl. 14 figs 5–7.

Anoplodactylus insignis var. bermudensis – Cole 1904a: 325–327, pl. 20 figs 1–3. — Marcus 1940: 40.

Anoplodactylus insignis – Marcus 1940: 58–60. — Hedgpeth 1943: 45; 1948: 226–228, fig. 28d–g. — Stock 1954a: 127; 1955: 235; 1975a: 1056–1058, fig. 44; 1986: 437. — Kraeuter 1973: 494. — Krapp & Kraeuter 1976: 337. — Child 1992b: 39 (key), 46–49, tabs 5, 12, 14, fig. 21. — Arango 2000: 62–63, fig. 2; 2002: tab. 1, figs 2–4 (phylogeny). — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a: 102 , 112; 2018b: 374, 375 (key), 377–378, fig. 2. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: tab. 1, fig. 3. — Ramírez-Tello et al. 2022: 154, 162, tab. 1.

Anoplodactylus insignis var. calcaratus – Stock 1986: 437–438, fig. 15a–b.

Type material

Holotype: NHMUK ZOO-1881.38 (not examined). Type locality: off Bahia, Brazil.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♀; Canal de Ste Lucie ; 14°24.46ʹ N, 60°53.06ʹ W; depth 60 m; 11 Sep. 2016; st. AD226; MNHN-IU-2016-808/ MK411130 • 1 ♂; Macouba ; 14°55.1ʹ N, 61°09.2ʹ W; depth 100 m; 24 Sep. 2016; st. AD262; MNHN-IU-2016-809/ MK411131 .

Remarks

This is the first record of this species from Martinique. One specimen was collected in the north and another in the south.

Distribution

Widespread in the Western Atlantic: North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Strait of Florida, Caribbean, Yucatan Channel, Gulf of Mexico, Guiana, Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil.

Depth range

0–90 m, extended to 100 m.