Anoplodactylus polignaci Bouvier, 1914

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 : 427

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17319718

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Anoplodactylus polignaci Bouvier, 1914
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Anoplodactylus polignaci Bouvier, 1914 View in CoL

Anoplodactylus polignaci Bouvier, 1914: 224–226 View in CoL , figs. 1–3; Hedgpeth, 1948: 230, fig. 30 a–d; Stock, 1966: 53–54, fig. 3c.

Type locality— Sylvana , off Bubak Islands, Guinea-Bissau, 25–30 m.

Material examined. CCLME-1110: BT160, 1♂.

Remarks. Our material agrees with the description and figures of the holotype provided by Bouvier (1914).

Habitat. This species had been reported from shells and foraminifera bottoms ( Stock 1966), between 25 and 50 m. Our material was collected at 47 m.

Geographical distribution. Anoplodactylus polignaci had been previously recorded from Florida ( Hedgpeth 1948) and from Guinea ( Bouvier 1914; Fage 1942; Stock 1966). Our specimen was collected from the north of Mauritania.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Pycnogonida

Order

Pantopoda

Family

Phoxichilidiidae

Genus

Anoplodactylus

Loc

Anoplodactylus polignaci Bouvier, 1914

Antolínez, Henar & Ramil, Fran 2025
2025
Loc

Anoplodactylus polignaci

Stock, J. 1966: 53
Hedgpeth, J. 1948: 230
Bouvier, E. 1914: 226
1914
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