Ammotheidae

Krapp, Franz, Kocak, Cengiz & Katagan, Tuncer, 2008, Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from the eastern Mediterranean Sea with description of a new species of Anoplodactylus, Zootaxa 1686, pp. 57-68 : 58-59

Family Ammotheidae

Ammothella longipes (Hodge, 1864) : St. 3a., 14.05.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 12 males (8 ovigerous), 3 females, 2 immatures, 3 juveniles ESFM-PYC/2006-1; St. 3a (38°49'N, 26°57'E), 17.06.2006, Gencelli Cove, Cystoseira crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 8 males (1 larviger, 2 ovigerous), 3 females, 3 immatures ESFM-PYC/ 2006-2. 2 males (1 ovigerous), 2 females ZMA Pa 205913. 2 males (1 ovigerous), 2 females ZMB 337.

Ammothella longioculata (Faraggiana, 1940) : St. 3a., 17.06.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 4 males, 2 immatures, 3 juveniles ESFM-PYC/ 2006-3. 1 male ZMA Pa. 205915, 1 chelate ZMA Pa. 205916. 2 chelates ZMB 334 / 335.

Ammothella uniunguiculata ( Dohrn, 1881) : St. 3a., 17.06.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 5 chelates, 13 immatures ESFM-PYC/ 2006-4. 2 chelates ZMA Pa 205916. 2 chelates ZMB 336; St.3a., 14.05.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 2 males, 1 female, 4 juveniles * ESFM-PYC/2006-5; St. 3a., Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0 3.03.1995 1.5 m. 3 immatures ESFM-PYC/1995-1; St. 3b (38°49'N, 26°57'E), 0 8.05.1996, French Holiday Village Halopteris scoparia , 1 m .. 1 chelate immature ESFM-PYC/1996-1.

* One male from this station has been used for the SEM photos in figure 2.

Ammothella appendiculata ( Dohrn, 1881) : St. 3a., 14.05.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 2 males ESFM-PYC/2006-6.

Ammothella sp. indet.: St. 3a., 17.06.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 1 immature, and 1 indetermined postlarva (probably Ammotheidae ) ESFM-PYC/2006-7.

Achelia langi ( Dohrn, 1881) : St. 3a., 17.06.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 1 female ESFM- PYC/2006-8; St. 3b., 0 3.03.1995, French Holiday Village, C. crinita , 0.5 m. 1 male ESFM-PYC/1995-2.

Achelia sp. indet.: St. 5., 0 7.03.2002, Balıklıova, Posidonia oceanica , 8 m. 1 immature ESFM-PYC/2002- 2.

Tanystylum conirostre ( Dohrn, 1881) : St. 3a., 0 3.03.1995, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 1.5 m. 3 males, 2 ovigerous males, 1 female, 1immature ESFM-PYC/1995-3; St. 3a., 14.05.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 1.5 m. 3 males, 2 females ESFM-PYC/2006-9; St. 3a. 17.06.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m 4 females, 2 males ESFM-PYC/ 2006-10. 2 females, 2 males ZMA Pa. 205911. 2 females, 2 males ZMB 333; St. 3b. 0 3.03.1995, French Holiday Village, C. crinita , 0.5 m. 2 females, 3 males, 1 juvenile ESFM-PYC/1995-4; St. 6 (37°05'N, 27°28'E), 22.07.1995, Torba (Bodrum), C. crinita , 1.5 m. 1 immature ESFM-PYC/1995-5.

Tanystylum orbiculare Wilson, 1878 : St. 3b. 0 3.03.1995, French Holiday Village, C. crinita , 0.5 m. 1 male ESFM-PYC/ 1995-6. 1 male ZMA Pa. 205917. 1 female ZMB 340; St. 3b., 0 8.05.1996, French Holiday Village, H. scoparia , 1 m. 1 ovigerous male ESFM-PYC/1996-2.

Ammotheidae indet.: St. 2. (39°04'N, 26°51'E), 0 7.07.1995, Dikili, C. crinita , 1 m. 1 postlarva ESFM- PYC/1995-7. St. 3a., 17.06.2006, Gencelli Cove, C. crinita , 0.5–1.5 m. 6 juveniles (in different stages) ESFM-PYC/ 2006-11.