Anoplodactylus oculatus Carpenter, 1905

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

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9754623B-A9B3-416C-86F5-61C0FC3E4D55

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17319714

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Anoplodactylus oculatus Carpenter, 1905
status

 

Anoplodactylus oculatus Carpenter, 1905 View in CoL

Anoplodactylus oculatus Carpenter, 1905: 4–5 View in CoL , L. II, figs. 7–11; Bamber, 2010: 202–203, fig. 237: Munilla & Soler-Membrives, 2014: 188–190, fig. 103.

Type locality— 50 miles W.N.W. of Tearaght , Ireland , 559.61 m

Material examined. Maroc-0411: MO09, 1♀. Maroc-0611: MO263, 1♂.

Remarks. Our material agrees with the description and figures of the holotype given by Carpenter (1905).

Habitat. This species has been recorded in the continental shelf and slope, between 3 and 905 m. Our material was collected between 410 and 1213 m.

Geographical distribution. Species with an area of distribution restricted to the Northeast Atlantic, with records from West Ireland ( Carpenter 1905), the English Channel (Stock 1978) and the north of Portugal ( Soler-Membrives & Munilla 2015). Our specimes were collected from the north coast of Morocco to the north of Western Sahara, which increases its geographical distribution towards the south.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Pycnogonida

Order

Pantopoda

Family

Phoxichilidiidae

Genus

Anoplodactylus

Loc

Anoplodactylus oculatus Carpenter, 1905

Antolínez, Henar & Ramil, Fran 2025
2025
Loc

Anoplodactylus oculatus

Munilla, T. & Soler-Membrives, A. 2014: 188
Bamber, R. 2010: 202
Carpenter, G. H. 1905: 5
1905
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