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Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from the Marine Biological Sample Museum in the Third Institute of Oceanography of MNR, with some new records and a checklist of Fujian, China
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- 1. Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China|Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China|Observation and Research Station of Island and Coastal Ecosystem in the Western Taiwan Straits, Ministry of Natural Resources, Zhangzhou, China|Fujian Provincial Station for Field Observation and Research of Island and Coastal Zone in Zhangzhou, Zhangzhou, China|The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
- 2. Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China
- 3. The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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Research on sea spiders in China is relatively scarce and there is a severe shortage of regional basic data. In earlier studies, there was a lack of attention given to this small group and museums housed a large number of specimens that had not been identified.
By re-examining the collections of sea spiders in the Marine Biological Sample Museum in the Third Institute of Oceanography of MNR (MBSM), 12 specimens were found to belong to five families, five genera and five species. Amongst them, four species were new records for Fujian, while Anoplodactylus tubiferus (Haswell, 1884) was a new record for China. Through reviewing previous studies, a checklist of sea spiders in Fujian was established and this study increased the number of recorded species from 10 to 14.
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