Anoplodactylus arnaudae Stock, 1978

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.17319712

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/13289720-FF9D-E13B-FF79-6E6BFC256160

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scientific name

Anoplodactylus arnaudae Stock, 1978
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Anoplodactylus arnaudae Stock, 1978 View in CoL

Anoplodactylus arnaudae Stock, 1978a: 217–219 View in CoL , fig. 10; Bamber, 2010: 198–199, fig. 235; Munilla & Soler-Membrives, 2014: 185–186, fig. 101.

Type locality— Thalassa Stat. Z426, 48º28'02"N 09º39'01"W, 860 m.

Material examined. Maroc-0411: MO09, 1♀.

Remarks. Our material agrees with the description and figures of the holotype provided by Stock (1978a).

Habitat. This species has been found in the continental slope, from bottoms of fine sand, gravel and sandy mud with foraminifera, corals and pteropods (Stock 1978; 1984; 1987), between 165 and 1350 m depth. Our material was collected at 1213 m.

Geographical distribution. Anoplodactylus arnaudae is a northeast Atlantic species, reported from the English Channel (Stock 1978), Ireland ( Stock 1984), Bank of Galicia (Stock 1991), Azores ( Bamber 2010), South of the Iberian Peninsula ( Stock 1987; Munilla & Soler-Membrives 2014), South of Morocco and Western Sahara ( Bamber & Thurston 1993). Our specimen was collected in the north of Morocco.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Pycnogonida

Order

Pantopoda

Family

Phoxichilidiidae

Genus

Anoplodactylus

Loc

Anoplodactylus arnaudae Stock, 1978

Antolínez, Henar & Ramil, Fran 2025
2025
Loc

Anoplodactylus arnaudae

Munilla, T. & Soler-Membrives, A. 2014: 185
Bamber, R. 2010: 198
Stock, J. 1978: 219
1978
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