Hedgpethia atlantica ( Stock, 1970 )

Sabroux, Romain, 2025, The genus Hedgpethia Turpaeva, 1973 (Pycnogonida: Colossendeidae): a review and a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1026, pp. 147-170 : 150

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1026.3111
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AD7EB291-58F9-4E81-B816-A849029E695F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17818313
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scientific name	Hedgpethia atlantica ( Stock, 1970 )
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Treatment

Hedgpethia atlantica ( Stock, 1970) View in CoL

Fig. 2, Table 1 View Table 1

Rhopalorhynchus atlanticum Stock, 1970: 7–9 View in CoL , 9 [key], figs 8–13.

Rhopalorhynchus atlanticum View in CoL – Rack 1971: 113. –– Arnaud 1987: 51–52. — Stock 1987: 508–509, 517 [text], fig. 12.

Hedgpethia atlantica View in CoL – Stock 1991a: 166 [text]; 1991b: 138. — Turpaeva 1993: 22 [text]. — Munilla & Soler-Membrives 2014: 218–220 [“ Hedgpthetia (sic) atlantica ”], fig. 120. — Soler-Membrives & Munilla 2015: 11, 16 [text], tab. 2. — Staples 2019: 433 [text].

Type material (not examined)

Holotype

NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC • ♀; Josephine Bank ; 36°40.7′ N, 14°15.5′ W; depth 211–241 m; 1 Jul. 1967; Meteor stn 120; ZMH-A50168 . GoogleMaps

Distribution and depth range

Eastern North Atlantic (West to Galicia, Portugal and Tanger), including Josephine Bank ( type locality), and across the Gibraltar Strait east to the Île du Levant, Hyères (Mediterranean French coast). Minimal known depth range 100–1110 m.