Anoplodactylus monotrema Stock 1979
Creators: name: Sabroux, Romain
name: Hassanin, Alexandre
name: Corbari, Laure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Pycnogonida
Pantopoda
Phoxichilidiidae
Anoplodactylus
Anoplodactylus monotrema

description: Anoplodactylus monotrema Stock, 1979
Anoplodactylus monotrema Stock, 1979: 15–18, figs 4–5.
Anoplodactylus monotrema – Child 1979: 56–58, fig. 19c; 1982a: 372; 1992a: 37–38; 1992b: tab. 5. — Stock 1986: 404; 1992a: 131, 139. — Müller 1990a: 284. — Montoya Bravo et al. 2009: 24, figs 14–15. — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a: 103, 112; 2018b: 374 (key), 378–382, fig. 2. — Lucena et al. 2019: tab. 1. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: tab. 1, figs 3, 5. — Ramírez-Tello et al. 2022: tab. 1.
Type material
Holotype: NL ZMA.PYC.P.1076 (not examined). Type locality: Santa Marta Bay, Curaçaõ.
Material examined
MARTINIQUE • 1 ♀; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle; 14°44.1ʹ N, 60°50.8ʹ W; depth 16 m; 18 Sep. 2016; st. AB189; MNHN-IU-2016-797/ MK411120 • 1 ♂ ov.; E of Le Vauclin; 14°34.2ʹ N, 60°44.8ʹ W; depth 90 m; 14 Sep. 2016; st.AD231; MNHN-IU-2016-890 • 1 ♂ ov.; Baie de Fort-de-France; 14°34.3ʹ N, 61°02.7ʹ W; depth 7 m; 7 Oct. 2016; st. AB394; MNHN-IU-2016-1046/ MK411034 • 1 ♂ ov., 1 juv.; Le Robert; 14°43.2ʹ N, 60°50.6ʹ W; depth 23 m; 25 Sep. 2016; st. AB405; MNHN-IU-2016-1048 • 1 ♀; Ste-Marie; 14°46.3ʹ N, 60°57.5ʹ W; depth 20 m; 20 Sep. 2016; st. AB260; MNHN-IU-2016-1065 • 1 ♂; Baie du Robert; 14°42ʹ N, 60°53.8ʹ W; depth 2 m; 24 Sep. 2016; st. AB452; MNHN-IU-2016-1072 • 1 ♀; CasePilote; 14°38.9ʹ N, 61°09.1ʹ W; depth 14 m; 27 Sep. 2016; st. AS 365; MNHN-IU-2016-1079 • 1 ♀; Le Prêcheur; 14°49.1ʹ N, 61°13.8ʹ W; depth 20–25 m; 8 Oct. 2016; st. AS 576; MNHN-IU-2016-1086 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Case-Pilote; 14°38.3ʹ N, 61°08.4ʹ W; depth 12 m; 8 Sep. 2016; st. AB159; MNHN-IU-2016-1092 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding;MNHN-IU-2017-223.• 1 juv.; Rocher du Diamant; 14°26.7ʹ N, 61°02.3ʹ W; depth 19–21 m; 9 Sep. 2016; st. AS 057; MNHN-IU-2016-1094 • 1 juv.; Banc du Diamant; 14°26.4ʹ N, 61°01.7ʹ W; depth 18 m; 15 Sep. 2016; st. AB177; MNHN-IU-2016-1106 • 1 ♂; Rocher du Diamant; 14°26.7ʹ N, 61°02.4ʹ W; depth 14 m; 14 Sep. 2016; st. AB175; MNHN-IU-2016-1130 • 2 ♂♂; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle; 14°48.4ʹ N, 60°52.8ʹ W; depth 23–25 m; 20 Sep. 2016; st. AB197; MNHN-IU-2016-1138 • 1 ♂; Schoelcher; 14°37.7ʹ N, 61°07.2ʹ W; depth 4 m; 27 Sep. 2016; st. AB460; MNHN-IU-2016-1155/ MK411066 • 1 ♀; Rocher du Diamant; 14°26.5ʹ N, 61°02.4ʹ W; depth 24 m; 14 Sep. 2016; st. AB173; MNHN-IU-2016-1157 • 1 ♂; Pointe Michel; 14°26.4ʹ N, 60°49.3ʹ W; depth 2 m; 12 Sep. 2016; st. AB120; MNHN-IU-2016-1179 • 1 juv.; Grande Anse du Diamant; 14°28ʹ N, 61°00.1ʹ W; depth 12 m; 26 Sep. 2016; st. AB360; MNHN-IU-2016-1185 • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-1216 • 1 ♂; Grande Anse d’Arlets; 14°30.5ʹ N, 61°06.1ʹ W; depth 20–23 m; 6 Sep. 2016; st. AB152; MNHN-IU-2016-1191 • 1 ♂; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle; 14°47.3ʹ N, 60°57.4ʹ W; depth 19 m; 21 Sep. 2016; st. AB301; MNHN-IU-2016-1227 • 1 ♂; Grande Anse du Diamant; 14°27.9ʹ N, 61°01.2ʹ W; depth 15 m; 15 Sep. 2016; st. AB179; MNHN-IU-2016-1242 • 1 ♂ ov.; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle; 14°46.5ʹ N, 60°51.5ʹ W; depth 15 m; 22 Sep. 2016; st. AB350; MNHN- IU-2016-1301.
Remarks
This species was first recorded in Martinique by Müller (1990a) from Petite Anse Macabou and was abundantly sampled in the present study.
Distribution
Tropical West Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, South Florida, Bahamas, Brazil. The distribution may be extended with misidentifications as Anoplodactylus robustus (Dohrn, 1881) in the Tropical Western Atlantic (Stock 1979).
Depth range
0–41 m, extended to 90 m.
description: Published as part of Sabroux, Romain, Hassanin, Alexandre & Corbari, Laure, 2022, Sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) collected during the Madibenthos Expedition from Martinique shallow waters, pp. 1-141 in European Journal of Taxonomy 851 (1) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.851.1999, http://zenodo.org/record/7428095