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Ammothella stauromata Child 1982

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Description

Ammothella stauromata Child, 1982

Child, 1982, 271–273, fig. 1.

Material: New Caledonia, 1 subadult specimen (MNHN­Py 1049), station 1418, Baie de Santal: east of Easo Point; sand and weed on wharf, 20º46.9'S 167º07.9'E, 1­5 m, November 2000; Lifou workshop.

Remarks: This small subadult has the tall, slender, middorsal trunk tubercles on the first three trunk segments, small tubercles on the lateral processes and first coxa, a large, blunt, eyed ocular tubercle, and auxiliary claws almost as long as the main claw as described by Child (1982). The juvenile features of the specimen include ovigers present as mere buds and a lack of trunk segmentation. This species is known throughout this region from the Philippines to Polynesia and the Great Barrier Reef, and from the littoral zone to 11 m depth.

Notes

Published as part of Bamber, Roger N., 2004, Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from French Cruises to Melanesia, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 551 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157770

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Child
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Pantopoda
Family
Ammotheidae
Genus
Ammothella
Species
stauromata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ammothella stauromata Child, 1982 sec. Bamber, 2004

References

  • Child, C. A. (1982) Pycnogonida of the Western Pacific Islands, 1: The Marshall Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 95 (2), 270 - 281.