Endeis flaccida Calman, 1923

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 : 69-70

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.851.1999

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7317EA8C-7C05-4E24-A38C-30F860013694

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7517127

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A95E06-3E5A-FFF5-FD9A-045A0079BA4A

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Felipe

scientific name

Endeis flaccida Calman, 1923
status

 

Endeis flaccida Calman, 1923 View in CoL View at ENA

Endeis flaccidus Calman, 1923: 295–297 , fig. 17.

Endeis flaccida View in CoL – Stock 1953a: 300; 1968a: 56, 59 (key); 1970b: 3–4; 1975a: 1085, fig. 58a–b; 1986: 440. — Child 1979: 66; 2009: 819 (list). — Arango 2003b: 2759–2761 View Cited Treatment , tab. 2, fig. 14. — Bamber 2008: 134. — Veena et al. 2008: tab. 1. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: 1530, tab. 1, fig. 3. — Wang et al. 2020: tab. 1; 2021: 6.

Type material

Syntypes: NHMUK ZOO-1923.10.6.18-23 (not examined). Type locality: Madras, India.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♂; Grande Anse du Diamant; 14°28.6ʹ N, 60°59.4ʹ W; depth 1–2 m; 9 Sep. 2016; st. AD215; MNHN-IU-2016-840/ MK411154 View Materials GoogleMaps 1 juv.; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN- IU-2016-559 GoogleMaps .

FRENCH GUIANA • 1 ♂; Île Royale / Île du Diable; Passe des Grenadines ; 5°17ʹ27.5388ʺ N, 52°35ʹ15.54ʺ W; depth 6–9 m; st. SC01; MNHN-IU-2013-18550/ KX535406 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Remarks

This is the first record of this species in Martinique. The material only includes one juvenile and one poorly preserved male with no femur left, which strongly impedes identification. However, DNA barcoding data indicated that they belong to the same species as a specimen from French Guiana, MNHN-IU-2013-18550, GenBank reference KX535406 View Materials ( Sabroux et al. 2017) with p-distance = 0. This specimen was successfully identified as Endeis flaccida . The species is recognizable by the intestinal tracts having many branched and unbranched diverticula, and the cement gland pores dispatched in an irregular band along the femur ( Child 1979). Furthermore, in contrast to the otherwise very similar species E. nodosa Hilton, 1942 (known from Pacific islands and Barbados), E. flaccida does not have a femoral ventral projection ( Müller 1992a).

The two specimens were collected at one station on the southern Caribbean coast of Martinique.

Distribution

Widely distributed and probably pantropical, recorded from Pacific Panama, West Atlantic (Florida, Martinique, Panama, French Guiana), the Indian Ocean ( Philippines, Indonesia, India), Taiwan and East Queensland.

Depth range

0– 69 m.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Pycnogonida

Order

Pantopoda

Family

Endeidae

Genus

Endeis

Loc

Endeis flaccida Calman, 1923

Sabroux, Romain, Hassanin, Alexandre & Corbari, Laure 2022
2022
Loc

Endeis flaccida

Sabroux R. & Hassanin A. & Corbari L. 2019: 1530
Child C. A. 2009: 819
Bamber R. N. 2008: 134
Arango C. P. 2003: 2759
Child C. A. 1979: 66
Stock J. H. 1968: 56
Stock J. H. 1953: 300
1953
Loc

Endeis flaccidus

Calman W. T. 1923: 297
1923
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