Anoplodactylus batangensis ( Helfer, 1938 )

Bamber, Roger N., 2004, Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from French Cruises to Melanesia, Zootaxa 551, pp. 1-27 : 16

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Anoplodactylus batangensis ( Helfer, 1938)

Helfer, 1938, 174– 176; fig. 6 (as Pycnosoma batangense); Child, 1992, 41– 42 (literature)

Material: New Caledonia: 1 male with eggs, 1 subadult male (MNHNPy 1048), station 1418, Baie de Santal: east of Easo Point, sand and weed on a wharf, 20 º 46.9 'S 167 º07.9'E, 15 m, November 2000; Lifou workshop.

Remarks: A pantropicaltemperate species easily recognized by its tapering proboscis. It is known from shallow depths, from the shore to 40 m, and has been recorded previously from New Caledonia and Tonga ( Bamber 2000; Child 1998).

References

Bamber, R. N. (2000) Pycnogonida: Pycnogonids from French cruises to New Caledonia, Fiji, Tahiti and the Marquesas. New records and new species. In: A. Crosnier (ed.). Resultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol. 21. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 184, 611 - 625.

Child, C. A. (1992) Shallow-water Pycnogonida of the Gulf of Mexico. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises, 9 (1), 1 - 86.

Child, C. A. (1998) Pycnogonida of the Western pacific islands, XIV. A shallow-water collection from Tonga. Species Diversity, 3, 289 - 300.

Helfer, H. (1938) Einige neue Pantopoden aus der Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums in Berlin. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1937 (2), 162 - 185.