Pallenopsis schmitti Hedgpeth, 1943

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 : 36-37

Pallenopsis schmitti Hedgpeth, 1943

Pallenopsis schmitti Hedgpeth, 1943: 44 .

Pallenopsis schmitti – Hedgpeth 1948: 212–214, fig. 22. — Stock 1955: 233–234, fig; 10; 1975a: 1018 (key), 1028–1030, fig. 30c–d. — Child 1979: 46. — Arango 2002: tab. 1, figs 2–4 (phylogeny); 2003a: 589, tab. 1. — Gillett & Schaffner 2009: fig. 6. — Müller & Krapp 2009: 121 (key), 122, 137, 138 (list). — Krapp & Viquez 2011: tab. 1. — Varela 2012: 4, fig. 2d. — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018: 110. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: tab. 1, fig. 3.

Pallenopsis (Pallenopsis) schmitti – Stock 1986: 425–427, fig. 8g –i. — Child 1992b: 65–67, tabs 12, 14, fig. 30; 2009: 819 (list). — Arango 2000: 63–65, fig. 3.

Type material

Syntypes: USNM 76517 (examined). Type locality: off West Florida and Cuba, Gulf of Mexico.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♂; SW of Vétiver ; 14°37.5ʹ N, 61°08.3ʹ W; depth 74 m; 2 Oct. 2016; st. AD290; MNHN-IU-2016-813/ MK411135 .

Remarks

This is the first record of this species in Martinique. The single specimen was collected on the Caribbean coast. This species was already recorded in the Caribbean from Colombia, Cuba and Florida.

Distribution

Tropical West Atlantic (Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, French Guiana, Brazil).

Depth range

15– 600 m.