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Ammothea spinosa

Description

Ammothea spinosa (Stimpson, 1853)

Distribution: Antarctica (Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea near South Shetland Islands; Ross Sea; Antarctic Peninsula); Magellanic region; Malvinas (Falkland) Islands; coast and off Buenos Aires Province (Argentina); off La Plata River (Uruguay) (Child 1994a; Albano et al. 2006; Cano-Sánchez & López-González 2014).

Uruguayan records: Child (1982): RV Atlantis II, cruise 60, st. 239, referred as 239A. Depth 1661–1679 m.

Notes

Published as part of Scarabino, Fabrizio, Lucena, Rudá Amorim, Munilla, Tomás, Soler-Membrives, Anna, Ortega, Leonardo, Schwindt, Evangelina, López, Guzmán, María, José & Christoffersen, Martin Lidsey, 2019, Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from Uruguayan waters (Southwest Atlantic): annotated checklist and biogeographic considerations, pp. 185-200 in Zootaxa 4550 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2625249

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References

  • Stimpson, W. (1853) Synopsis of the marine invertebrata of Grand Manan, or the region around the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 6 (5), 1 - 67. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11697
  • Child, C. A. (1994 a) Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida. I. The Family Ammotheidae. Antarctic Research Series, 63, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.1029 / AR 063 p 0001
  • Albano, M., Pon, J. S. & Obenat, S. (2006) Macrozoobentos asociado a los agregados de Phyllochaetopterus socialis Claparede, 1870 en el puerto de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Investigaciones Marinas, 34 (2), 197 - 203. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / S 0717 - 71782006000200021
  • Cano-Sanchez, E. & Lopez-Gonzalez, P. J. (2014) New findings and a new species of the genus Ammothea (Pycnogonida, Ammotheidae), with an updated identification key to all Antarctic and sub-Antarctic species. Helgoland Marine Research, 68 (1), 155 ‾ 168. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10152 - 013 - 0376 - x
  • Child, C. A. (1982) Deep-sea Pycnogonida from the North and South Atlantic basins. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 349, 1 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.349