Pallenopsis candidoi Mello-Leitão, 1949

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 : 36

Pallenopsis candidoi Mello-Leitão, 1949

Pallenopsis candidoi Mello-Leitão, 1949: 299–307 , pls. 9–10.

Pallenopsis candidoi – Stock 1957: 105, figs 19–20; 1966b: 393. — Krapp & Kraeuter 1976: 337. — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a: 103, 110; 2022: 308, 310, fig. 4. — Cano-Sánchez & LópezGonzález 2019: 528 (key). — Sabroux et al. 2019b: 1525, tab.1, fig. 3.

Pallenopsis (Pallenopsis) candidoi – Stock 1975a: 1018 (key), 1030; 1992a: 130, 139.

Type material

Holotype: MP and EMB-IOC (see Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a) (not examined). Type locality: between Ilha do Francês and Ilha da Armaçaõ , Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♀; Le Lorrain; 14°50.7ʹ N, 61°03.8ʹ W; depth 11–14 m; 6 Oct. 2016; st. AS 565; MNHN-IU-2016-814/ MK411136 .

Remarks

This is the first record of this species in Martinique and in the Caribbean, which fills a gap in the distribution of this species, already recorded from the northwest Atlantic, Surinam and Brazil. The specimen was collected on the Atlantic coast.

Distribution

West Atlantic ( Brazil, Surinam, Caribbean and US Georgia).

Depth range

14– 102 m.