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Colossendeis bicincta Schimkewitsch 1893

  • 1. Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM-UVigo), Facultade de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade de Vigo. Campus Lagoas-Marcosende. 36310 Vigo. Spain

Description

Colossendeis bicincta Schimkewitsch, 1893

Colossendeis bicincta Schimkewitsch, 1893: 27–29, L.I, fig. 1–3; Stock, 1978b: 409–411, figs. 1 a–f, 3.

Type locality— Albatross, Stn. 3360, 6º17'00"N 82º5'00"W, 3057.75 m

Material examined. Maroc-0511: MO171, 1♂.

Remarks. Our specimen agrees with the description and figures given by Schimkewitsch (1893) and Stock (1978b)

Habitat. This species has been cited from 1900 to 4853 m. Our material was collected at 1591 m.

Geographical distribution. This species has been collected from South of Ireland (Bamber & Thurston 1995), English Channel (Stock 1984) and Bay of Biscay (Stock 1978) in the Atlantic Ocean, and from Panama (Schimkewistch 1893) and Fiji (Stock 1991) in the Pacific Ocean. Our specimen was collected in Morocco, extending their distribution area to the south.

Notes

Published as part of Antolínez, Henar & Ramil, Fran, 2025, Sea spiders (Class: Pycnogonida) from northwest Africa with the description of 4 new species, pp. 401-438 in Zootaxa 5689 (3) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5689.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17319625

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Material sample ID
Maroc-0511: MO171
Scientific name authorship
Schimkewitsch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Pantopoda
Family
Colossendeidae
Genus
Colossendeis
Species
bicincta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Colossendeis bicincta Schimkewitsch, 1893 sec. Antolínez & Ramil, 2025

References

  • Schimkewitsch, Wl. (1893) Compte-rendu sur les Pantopodes, recueillis pendant les Explorations de lAlbatross en 1891. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 25 (2), 27-43.
  • Stock, J. (1978 b) Abyssal Pycnogonida from the north-eastern Atlantic basin, part II. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, XIX, 397-413.
  • Bamber, R. & Thurston, M. (1995) The deep-water Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115, 117-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb02325.x
  • Stock, J. (1984) Deep-water Pycnogonida of the INCAL, BIOGAS, GEOMANCHE and SAFARI cruises. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 64, 743-749. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400047202