Anoplodactylus pectinus Hedgpeth 1948
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 pectinus

description: Anoplodactylus pectinus Hedgpeth, 1948
Fig. 22K–L
Anoplodactylus pectinus Hedgpeth, 1948: 234–236, fig. 34.
Anoplodactylus pectinus – Hedgpeth 1954: 427. — Stock 1955: 235, fig. 11; 1974: 17; 1979: 15; 1986: 404; 1994: 19 (list), 64. — Arnaud 1973a: 955–957. — Child 1974: 500; 1979: 58; 1982a: 372–373; 1988a: 20; 1996c: 552; 1998b: 295; 2004: 158; 2009: 820 (list). — Nakamura & Child 1988a: 662. — Bamber 1998: 30; 2004: tab. 2. — Arango 2003b: 2746 (key), 2752–2753, 2755, tab. 2, fig. 10. — Arango & Krapp 2007: 20, 23. — Montoya Bravo et al. 2009: 24–26. — Müller & Krapp 2009: 10–13, 85 (key), 107–110, 132 (phenology), 137 (list), tabs 1, 3, fig. 57. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: 1530, 1532, tab. 1, fig. 3. — Ramírez-Tello et al. 2022: 161–162, tab. 1.
Anoplodactylus pectinis – Stock 1975a: 1050–1052, fig. 41a.
Type material
Holotype: USNM 81095 (examined). Type locality: Loggerhead Key, Tortugas, Florida (Gulf of Mexico).
Material examined
MARTINIQUE • 1 ♂ ov.; Case-Pilote; 14°38.3ʹ N, 61°08.4ʹ W; depth 12 m; 8 Sep. 2016; st. AB159; MNHN-IU-2016-805/ MK411127 • 1 ♂; Anse Noire; 14°32ʹ N, 61°05.3ʹ W; depth 13 m; 6 Sep. 2016; st. AB150; MNHN-IU-2016-806/ MK411128 • 1 ♂; Passe du Marin; 14°26.8ʹ N, 60°54.3ʹ W; depth 15 m; 9 Sep. 2016; st. AB165; MNHN-IU-2016-897 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Grande Anse d’Arlets; 14°29.9ʹ N, 61°05.4ʹ W; depth 28 m; 7 Sep. 2016; st. AB157; MNHN-IU-2016-898 • 1 ♀, 2 juvs; Rocher du Diamant; 14°26.7ʹ N, 61°02.3ʹ W; depth 19–21 m; 9 Sep. 2016; st. AS 057; MNHN-IU-2016-899 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; SteLuce; 14°27.3ʹ N, 60°55.5ʹ W; depth 15 m; 10 Sep. 2016; st. AB062; MNHN-IU-2016-1040 • 1 ♀; Les Anses-d’Arlet; 14°28.5ʹ N, 61°05.1ʹ W; depth 29 m; 26 Sep. 2016; st. AD271; MNHN-IU-2016-1093 • 1 juv.; Trois Rivières; 14°27.5ʹ N, 60°58.2ʹ W; depth 17–19 m; 9 Oct. 2016; st. AS 579; MNHN- IU-2016-1126 • 1 juv.; Fond Boucher; 14°39.3ʹ N, 61°09.4ʹ W; depth 14 m; 27 Sep. 2016; st. AS 363; MNHN-IU-2016-1161 • 2 ♂♂, 2 juvs; Trois Rivières; 14°27.5ʹ N, 60°58.2ʹ W; depth 17 m; 9 Oct. 2016; st.AB578; MNHN-IU-2016-1167 • 1 ♂ ov.; Pointe de la Baleine; 14°31.1ʹ N, 61°05.9ʹ W; depth 17–19 m; 30 Sep. 2016; st. AB369; MNHN-IU-2016-1254/ MK411086.
Remarks
This species is reported for the first time from Martinique, where it was only sampled on the Caribbean coast. The species is morphologically close to A. madibenthos sp. nov., with the same characteristic pectinated propodal spine; however, this species is much more elongated, with a wider separation between the lateral processes.
Distribution
Pantropical: Tropical West Atlantic (Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Florida), Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Indonesia), Easter Australia, Pacific Ocean (Philippines, Ryukyu Archipelago, Fiji Islands, Caroline Islands). It is possible that some of these records were mistaken with Anoplodactylus madibenthos sp. nov.
Depth range
0– 34 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 97-98, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.851.1999, http://zenodo.org/record/7428095