Eurycyde clitellaria Stock, 1955

Sabroux, Romain, Hassanin, Alexandre & Corbari, Laure, 2022, Sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) collected during the Madibenthos Expedition from Martinique shallow waters, European Journal of Taxonomy 851 (1), pp. 1-141 : 42-44

Eurycyde clitellaria Stock, 1955

Eurycyde clitellaria Stock, 1955: 263–266 , figs 25–26.

Eurycyde clitellaria – McCloskey 1967: 128–131, figs 18–21. — Child 1979: 16; 1988a: 8 (key); 1992b: 8 (key), 25–26, 28, tabs 3, 12, 14, fig. 10. — Stock 1986: tab. 1. — Nakamura & Chullasorn 2000: 3 (key). — Müller & Krapp 2009: 10, 61 (key), 61–63, 137 (list), tab. 1, fig. 31. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: 1525, 1532, tab. 1, figs 3, 5. — Ramírez-Tello et al. 2022: tab. 1.

Type material

Holotype: NHMD 110654 (not examined). Type locality: sound between St John and St James ( Virgin Islands).

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♂; Pointe du Diamant ; 14°27ʹ N, 61°04.1ʹ W; depth 70 m; 9 Sep. 2016; st. AD214; MNHN-IU-2016-823/ MK411142 • 1 ♂; Les Anses-d’Arlet; 14°29.7ʹ N, 61°05.4ʹ W; depth 19 m; 7 Sep. 2016; st. AB155; MNHN-IU-2016-824/ MK411143 • 1 ♂; Canal de Ste Lucie ; 14°23.1ʹ N, 60°50.2ʹ W; depth 65 m; 11 Sep. 2016; st. AD224; MNHN-IU-2016-825/ MK411144 • 1 preadult ♀; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-579 • 1 ♂, 1 juv.; Canal de Ste Lucie ; 14°22.7ʹ N, 60°51.3ʹ W; depth 65 m; 11 Sep. 2016; st. AD223; MNHN-IU-2016-545 • 7 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 1 ♀ gr., 2 juvs; Canal de Ste Lucie ; 14°22.7ʹ N, 60°51.6ʹ W; depth 65 m; 11 Sep. 2016; st. AD222; MNHN-IU-2016-547 • 1 ♀; Grande Anse d’Arlets ; 14°29.9ʹ N, 61°05.4ʹ W; depth 28 m; 7 Sep. 2016; st. AB157; MNHN- IU-2016-549 • 1 ♀; Vétiver ; 14°37.8ʹ N, 61°07.7ʹ W; depth 25 m; 8 Sep. 2016; st. AB161; MNHN- IU-2016-550 • 6 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; Les Anses-d’Arlet; 14°28.1ʹ N, 61°05.3ʹ W; depth 72 m; 8 Oct. 2016; st. AD616; MNHN-IU-2016-1041 • 6 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, 4 juvs; Fond Boucher ; 14°39.3ʹ N, 61°09.6ʹ W; depth 37–40 m; 1 Oct. 2016; st. AD283; MNHN-IU-2016-1053 • 5 juvs; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-1223 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 1 juv.; Baie de St-Pierre ; 14°45.1ʹ N, 61°11ʹ W; depth 17 m; 4 Oct. 2016; st. AB388; MNHN-IU-2016-1057 • 2 ♀♀; Bellefontaine ; 14°40.2ʹ N, 61°10.5ʹ W; depth 70 m; 2 Oct. 2016; st. AD289; MNHN-IU-2016-1112 • 1 ♂; SW Vétiver ; 14°37.6ʹ N, 61°08.3ʹ W; depth 60 m; 30 Sep. 2016; st. AD280; MNHN-IU-2016-1134 • 1 ♂; Les Anses-d’Arlet; 14°28.5ʹ N, 61°05.1ʹ W; depth 29 m; 26 Sep. 2016; st. AD271; MNHN-IU-2016-1135 • 1 ♀ gr?; Le Carbet ; 14°42.3ʹ N, 61°11.7ʹ W; depth 90 m; 3 Oct. 2016; st. AD293; MNHN-IU-2016-1146 • 1 juv.; Bellefontaine ; 14°40.2ʹ N, 61°10ʹ W; depth 40 m; 2 Oct. 2016; st. AD286; MNHN-IU-2016-1192 • 1 ♀; Grande Anse d’Arlets ; 14°30.1ʹ N, 61°06.3ʹ W; depth 71 m; 8 Oct. 2016; st. AD617; MNHN-IU-2016-1194 • 1 ♀; Le Prêcheur ; 14°49.1ʹ N, 61°13.8ʹ W; depth 20–25 m; 8 Oct. 2016; st. AS 576; MNHN-IU-2016-1198 • 1 ♀; Pointe du Diamant ; 14°26.9ʹ N, 61°04ʹ W; depth 84 m; 8 Oct. 2016; st. AD614; MNHN-IU-2016-1212 • 1 juv.; Baie de Fortde-France ; 14°35.4ʹ N, 61°01.5ʹ W; depth 8 m; 6 Oct. 2016; st. AD602; MNHN-IU-2016-1214 • 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀; Pointe de la Baleine ; 14°31.1ʹ N, 61°05.9ʹ W; depth 17–19 m; 30 Sep. 2016; st. AB369; MNHN- IU-2016-1255 • 1 ♂; SW of Vétiver ; 14°37.6ʹ N, 61°08.6ʹ W; depth 66 m; 7 Oct. 2016; st. AD612; MNHN-IU-2016-1289 .

Remarks

A noticeable feature of this species compared to other representatives of Eurycyde is the strong bending of the abdomen about mid-length in a right angle. This feature is illustrated by Müller & Krapp (2009) and Stock (1955), although the bending seems to be only very slight in Child (1992b).

This is the first record of this species in Martinique. The species was abundantly sampled but only on the Caribbean coast. Records of E. clitellaria outside the Caribbean Sea are actually rare, with only one record of four specimens in Jalisco, Pacific Mexico ( Child 1979) and one record of one specimen from North Carolina ( McCloskey 1967).

Distribution

Caribbean, North Carolina, Pacific Mexico (Jalisco).

Depth range

Intertidal to 100 m.