Nymphon gruveli Bouvier, 1910

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 : 417-418

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17319700
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scientific name	Nymphon gruveli Bouvier, 1910
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Treatment

Nymphon gruveli Bouvier, 1910 View in CoL

Nymphon gruveli Bouvier, 1910: 331–335 View in CoL , figs. 1–6; Giltay, 1937: 83–84, fig. 1; Stock, 1990: 226–227, fig. 10.

Type locality— Mission Gruvel, off Cape Blanc

Material examined. Maurit-0811: MU129 , 4♂, 3♀ ; MU131 , 1♂, 1♀ ; MU133 , 1♀ ; MU142 , 1♀ ; MU149 , 3♀ ; MU151 , 1♂, 1♀ ; MU156 , 1♂ ; MU158 , 1♀ ; MU166 , 1♂, 1♀ ; MU167 , 1♂ ; MU168 , 2♀ ; MU171 , 2♂ . Maurit-0911: MU204 , 2♂, 4♀ ; MU207 , 1♀ ; MU209 , 1♂ ; MU226 , 2♂ ; MU228 , 1♀ ; MU233 , 1♀ ; MU251 , 1♀ ; MU266 , 1♀ ; MUBV21 , 2♂ . CCLME-1110: BT156, 1♂, 2♀; BT160, 1♀; BT171, 1♀; BT194, 1♀. CCLME-1205: BT432, 1♀; BT473, 1♀; BT496, 1♀.

Remarks. Our material agrees with the description and figures given by Bouvier (1910).

Habitat. This species has been reported from brown algae, sponges, bryozoans and worm tubes on both soft and hard bottoms ( Stock 1990). Its bathymetric range extends from 16 to 155 m. Our material was collected between 46 and 351 m, increasing the bathymetric distribution to the upper slope.

Geographical distribution. This species is endemic to Northwest Africa, where it has been reported from Morocco to Senegal ( Bamber & Thurston 1993). Our specimens were collected from the Western Sahara and Mauritania.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Pycnogonida
Order	Pantopoda
Family	Nymphonidae
Genus	Nymphon