Colossendeis angusta G.O. Sars, 1877

Antolínez, Henar & Ramil, Fran, 2025, Sea spiders (Class: Pycnogonida) from northwest Africa with the description of 4 new species, Zootaxa 5689 (3), pp. 401-438 : 413

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17319691

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scientific name

Colossendeis angusta G.O. Sars, 1877
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Colossendeis angusta G.O. Sars, 1877 View in CoL

Colossendeis angusta G.O. Sars, 1877: 268–269 View in CoL ; Sars, 1891: 140–143, L. 15, fig. 2a–f; Hedgpeth, 1948: 269–271, fig. 50a; Bamber, 2010: 40–41, fig. 83; Munilla & Soler-Membrives, 2014: 208–210, fig. 115.

Type locality— Reikjavik, Stn. 31, 63º6'00"N 4º35'24"W, 762.61 m

Material examined. Maroc-041: MO04, 1♀; MO68, 1♂; MO82, 1♂; MO83, 1♀; MO84, 1♂; MO89, 1♂. Maroc-0511: MO106, 2♂, 1♀; MU158 , 1♂, 1♀ ; MO162, 1♂, 1♀. Maroc-0611: MO191, 2♂, 1♀; MO193, 1♂; MO194, 1♀; MO195, 3♂, 2♀; MO196, 1♂; MO197, 4♂, 1♀, 1♂ juvenile; MO199, 1♂; MO200, 1♀; MO203, 4♂, 1♀; MO204, 9♂; MO207, 5♂; MO208, 1♂; MO216, 3♂, 1♀, 1♂ juvenile; MO229, 1♂, 1♀; MO230, 3♂, 3♀, 1 indet; MO232, 1♂; MO238, 1 ♂, 1 indet; MO242, 1♂, 1♀, 1 indet; MO243, 6♂, 5♀; MO249, 1♂, 1♀; MO250, 2♂; MO258, 2♂, 2♀; MO260, 4♂, 1♀, 1 indet; MO265, 1♂. Maurit-1107: MU003 , 12♂, 3♀ ; MU006 , 7♂, 5♀ ; MU007 , 4♂, 2♀ ; MU008 , 1♂, 1♀ ; MU009 , 1♀ ; MU010 , 1♂ ; MU011 , 13♂, 6♀, 1♂ juvenile, 2 juveniles, 1 indet; MU012 , 1♂, 1♀ ; MU022 , 3♂, 2♀ ; MU028 , 1♂ ; MU029 , 1♀ ; MU030 , 4♂, 4♀ , 1 indet; MU031 , 3♂, 2♀ ; MU036 , 1♂, 1♀ ; MU039 , 2♂, 2♀ ; MU041 , 1♂ ; MU050 , 1♂ ; MU058 , 1♂, 2♀ ; MU062 , 1♀ . Maurit-0811: MU080 , 1♀ ; MU085 , 1♀ ; MU092 , 10♂, 2♀ ; MU093 , 18♂, 5♀ ; MU094 , 2♂, 1♀ ; MU095 , 2♂, 2♀ ; MU096 , 5♂, 2♀ ; MU097 , 1♂ ; MU100 , 1♂ ; MU113 , 1♀ ; MU114 , 1♂ ; MU159 , 1♂, 2♀ , 1 indet.Maurit-0911: MU187 , 1♂ , 2 indet; MU189 , 1♂ ; MU193 , 6♂, 3♀ , 1 indet; MU194 , 2♂, 2♀ . Maurit-1011: MU248 , 1♂ ; MU250 , 1♂ ; MUBV23 , 1♂ . BISSAU-0810: BS165, 1♂; BS166, 1♂, 2♀.

Remarks. Our specimens agree with the description and figures provided by Sars (1891). Some of the specimens are juveniles with developed cheliphores like to those described by Fage (1956).

Habitat. Species reported from pteropod and foraminifera bottoms ( Stock 1987) between 13 and 5480 m. Our material was collected between 227 and 1859 m.

Geographical distribution. Colossendeis angusta is a cosmopolitan species. It has been reported from Greenland Sea ( Meinert 1899; Stephensen 1933; Hedgpeth 1963), Norway ( Sars 1877; Wilson 1881; Meinert 1899; Norman 1908; Stephensen 1935; Rigvold et al. 2015), Iceland Basin ( Meinert 1899), Faroe Channel ( Norman 1908; Olsen 1913; Bamber & Thurston 1995; Dunlop et al. 2007), Scotland ( Möbius 1902; Dunlop et al. 2007), South of Ireland ( Bamber 1983), Bank of Galicia, Portugal ( Bamber & Thurston 1995; Soler-Membrives & Munilla 2015), North of Morocco ( Stock 1987), Western Sahara (Bamber & Thirston 1993), Bank of Arguin, Mauritania ( Bouvier 1937) in the East Atlantic, and from Terranova ( Olsen 1913), New Scotland, North Carolina ( Hedgpeth 1948), Uruguay ( Soler-Membrives et al. 2020), the Argentine Slope ( Child 1982) and the Scottia Sea ( Munilla & Soler-Membrives 2009) in the West Atlantic. In the Indian Ocean has been collected from Gulf of Aden ( Calman 1938), Tanzania ( Loman 1908; Dunlop et al. 2007) and the Mozambique Channel ( Fage 1956; Stock 1994), and from Japan ( Hedgpeth 1949; Nakamura & Child 1991; Miyazaki 2022), the North Pacific Basin ( Turpaeva 1994), Ecuador, Peru (Child 1992), Panama ( Marcus 1940; Fage 1956), Tasmania and Kermadec Trench ( Fage 1956) in the Pacific. Our specimens were collected throughout the study area, from Morocco to Guinea-Bissau.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Pycnogonida

Order

Pantopoda

Family

Colossendeidae

Genus

Colossendeis

Loc

Colossendeis angusta G.O. Sars, 1877

Antolínez, Henar & Ramil, Fran 2025
2025
Loc

Colossendeis angusta G.O. Sars, 1877: 268–269

Munilla, T. & Soler-Membrives, A. 2014: 208
Bamber, R. 2010: 40
Hedgpeth, J. 1948: 269
Sars, G. O. 1891: 140
Sars, G. O. 1877: 269
1877
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