Anoplodactylus monotrema Stock, 1979

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 : 96-97

Anoplodactylus monotrema Stock, 1979

Anoplodactylus monotrema Stock, 1979: 15–18 , figs 4–5.

Anoplodactylus monotrema – Child 1979: 56–58, fig. 19c; 1982a: 372; 1992a: 37–38; 1992b: tab. 5. — Stock 1986: 404; 1992a: 131, 139. — Müller 1990a: 284. — Montoya Bravo et al. 2009: 24 , figs 14–15. — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a: 103 , 112; 2018b: 374 (key), 378–382, fig. 2. — Lucena et al. 2019: tab. 1. — Sabroux et al. 2019b: tab. 1, figs 3, 5. — Ramírez-Tello et al. 2022: tab. 1.

Type material

Holotype: NL ZMA.PYC.P.1076 (not examined). Type locality: Santa Marta Bay , Curaçaõ.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♀; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle ; 14°44.1ʹ N, 60°50.8ʹ W; depth 16 m; 18 Sep. 2016; st. AB189; MNHN-IU-2016-797/ MK411120 • 1 ♂ ov.; E of Le Vauclin ; 14°34.2ʹ N, 60°44.8ʹ W; depth 90 m; 14 Sep. 2016; st.AD231; MNHN-IU-2016-890 • 1 ♂ ov.; Baie de Fort-de-France ; 14°34.3ʹ N, 61°02.7ʹ W; depth 7 m; 7 Oct. 2016; st. AB394; MNHN-IU-2016-1046/ MK411034 • 1 ♂ ov., 1 juv.; Le Robert ; 14°43.2ʹ N, 60°50.6ʹ W; depth 23 m; 25 Sep. 2016; st. AB405; MNHN-IU-2016-1048 • 1 ♀; Ste-Marie ; 14°46.3ʹ N, 60°57.5ʹ W; depth 20 m; 20 Sep. 2016; st. AB260; MNHN-IU-2016-1065 • 1 ♂; Baie du Robert ; 14°42ʹ N, 60°53.8ʹ W; depth 2 m; 24 Sep. 2016; st. AB452; MNHN-IU-2016-1072 • 1 ♀; CasePilote ; 14°38.9ʹ N, 61°09.1ʹ W; depth 14 m; 27 Sep. 2016; st. AS 365; MNHN-IU-2016-1079 • 1 ♀; Le Prêcheur ; 14°49.1ʹ N, 61°13.8ʹ W; depth 20–25 m; 8 Oct. 2016; st. AS 576; MNHN-IU-2016-1086 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Case-Pilote ; 14°38.3ʹ N, 61°08.4ʹ W; depth 12 m; 8 Sep. 2016; st. AB159; MNHN-IU-2016-1092 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding;MNHN-IU-2017-223 .• 1 juv.; Rocher du Diamant ; 14°26.7ʹ N, 61°02.3ʹ W; depth 19–21 m; 9 Sep. 2016; st. AS 057; MNHN-IU-2016-1094 • 1 juv.; Banc du Diamant ; 14°26.4ʹ N, 61°01.7ʹ W; depth 18 m; 15 Sep. 2016; st. AB177; MNHN-IU-2016-1106 • 1 ♂; Rocher du Diamant ; 14°26.7ʹ N, 61°02.4ʹ W; depth 14 m; 14 Sep. 2016; st. AB175; MNHN-IU-2016-1130 • 2 ♂♂; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle ; 14°48.4ʹ N, 60°52.8ʹ W; depth 23–25 m; 20 Sep. 2016; st. AB197; MNHN-IU-2016-1138 • 1 ♂; Schoelcher ; 14°37.7ʹ N, 61°07.2ʹ W; depth 4 m; 27 Sep. 2016; st. AB460; MNHN-IU-2016-1155/ MK411066 • 1 ♀; Rocher du Diamant ; 14°26.5ʹ N, 61°02.4ʹ W; depth 24 m; 14 Sep. 2016; st. AB173; MNHN-IU-2016-1157 • 1 ♂; Pointe Michel ; 14°26.4ʹ N, 60°49.3ʹ W; depth 2 m; 12 Sep. 2016; st. AB120; MNHN-IU-2016-1179 • 1 juv.; Grande Anse du Diamant ; 14°28ʹ N, 61°00.1ʹ W; depth 12 m; 26 Sep. 2016; st. AB360; MNHN-IU-2016-1185 • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-1216 • 1 ♂; Grande Anse d’Arlets ; 14°30.5ʹ N, 61°06.1ʹ W; depth 20–23 m; 6 Sep. 2016; st. AB152; MNHN-IU-2016-1191 • 1 ♂; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle ; 14°47.3ʹ N, 60°57.4ʹ W; depth 19 m; 21 Sep. 2016; st. AB301; MNHN-IU-2016-1227 • 1 ♂; Grande Anse du Diamant ; 14°27.9ʹ N, 61°01.2ʹ W; depth 15 m; 15 Sep. 2016; st. AB179; MNHN-IU-2016-1242 • 1 ♂ ov.; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle ; 14°46.5ʹ N, 60°51.5ʹ W; depth 15 m; 22 Sep. 2016; st. AB350; MNHN- IU-2016-1301 .

Remarks

This species was first recorded in Martinique by Müller (1990a) from Petite Anse Macabou and was abundantly sampled in the present study.

Distribution

Tropical West Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, South Florida, Bahamas, Brazil. The distribution may be extended with misidentifications as Anoplodactylus robustus ( Dohrn, 1881) in the Tropical Western Atlantic ( Stock 1979).

Depth range

0–41 m, extended to 90 m.