Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881

Scarabino, Fabrizio, Lucena, Rudá Amorim, Munilla, Tomás, Soler-Membrives, Anna, Ortega, Leonardo, Schwindt, Evangelina, López, Guzmán, María, José & Christoffersen, Martin Lidsey, 2019, Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from Uruguayan waters (Southwest Atlantic): annotated checklist and biogeographic considerations, Zootaxa 4550 (2), pp. 185-200 : 187

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.2.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5924292

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Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881
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Family Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881 View in CoL

Remarks: The description of Tanystylum isthmiacum difficile Stock, 1966 was based on a single female collected at one of nine RV Calypso 1961 –1962 cruise stations between north Brazil and Buenos Aires Province ( Argentina). Owing to a mix-up in material (see Stock 1966), the exact station is not known, and thus its presence in Uruguayan waters is uncertain ( Stock 1966). Fage & Stock (1966) and Stock (1975) recorded this subspecies from Cape Verde Islands (eastern Atlantic, 40 m depth) and northern Brazil (at depth between 51–93 m) respectively. It was also doubtfully recorded from shallow subtidal waters (6–9 m depth) on the Caribbean coast of Panama ( Child 1979). Stock (1992) recorded this subspecies from southeast Brazil (19°S, 28 m depth). Müller & Krapp (2009) considered T. isthmiacum Stock, 1955 to be a morphologically variable species and did not follow the separation of that species into two subspecies. They also compiled the known distribution of this species in the Eastern Pacific, Western Atlantic and Eastern Atlantic.

Tanystylum orbiculare Wilson, 1878 View in CoL has been recorded from the littoral zone of the Buenos Aires Province ( Argentina) by several authors ( Stock 1966; Bremec et al. 1986; Genzano 2002). Achelia assimilis (Haswell, 1885) View in CoL has been recorded from the Buenos Aires Province ( Argentina) (e. g. Stock 1966; Bremec et al. 1986; Genzano 2002; Albano et al. 2006) from near-shore locations; elsewhere it has been recorded for Subantarctic localities (e. g. Child 1994a). The taxonomy of species belonging to this genus remains problematic (see Child 1994a).

Albano, M., Pon, J. S. & Obenat, S. (2006) Macrozoobentos asociado a los agregados de Phyllochaetopterus socialis Claparede, 1870 en el puerto de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Investigaciones Marinas, 34 (2), 197 - 203. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / S 0717 - 71782006000200021

Bremec, C. S., Martinez, D. E. & Elias, R. (1986) Picnogonidos de los alrededores de Bahia Blanca (Argentina). Spheniscus, 3, 31 - 49.

Child, C. A. (1979) Shallow-water Pycnogonida of the Isthmus of Panama and the coasts of Middle America. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 293, 1 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.293

Child, C. A. (1994 a) Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. I. The Family Ammotheidae. Antarctic Research Series, 63, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.1029 / AR 063 p 0001

Fage, L. & Stock, J. H. (1966) Pycnogonides. Resultats Scientifiques de la Campagne de la Calypso aux iles de Cap Vert (1959), 7. Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique, 44, 315 - 327.

Genzano, G. N. (2002) Associations between pycnogonids and hydroids from the Buenos Aires littoral zone, with observations on the semi-parasitic life cycle of Tanystylum orbiculare (Ammotheiidae). Scientia Marina, 66 (1), 83 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 2002.66 n 183

Muller, H. G. & Krapp, F. (2009) The pycnogonid fauna (Pycnogonida, Arthropoda) of the Tayrona National Park and adjoining areas on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Zootaxa, 2319, 1 - 138.

Stock, J. H. (1966) Pycnogonida. Campagne de la Calypso au large des cotes atlantiques de l'Amerique du Sud (1961 - 1962). I. Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique, 44, 385 - 406.

Stock, J. H. (1975) Pycnogonida from the continental shelf, slope, and deep sea of the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific. Biological results of the University of Miami deep-sea expedition, 108. Bulletin of Marine Science, 24 (4), 957 - 1092.

Stock, J. H. (1992) Pycnogonida from southern Brazil. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 135, 113 - 139.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Pycnogonida

Order

Pantopoda

Family

Ammotheidae