A new species of Anoplodactylus (Pycnogonida: Phoxichilidiidae) from Brazil, with a case of gynandromorphism in Anoplodactylus eroticus Stock, 1968

作者：Lucena Ruda Amorim^*; De Araujo Joafrancio Pereira; Christoffersen Martin Lindsey

来源：Zootaxa, 2015, 4000(4): 428-444.

DOI：10.11646/zootaxa.4000.4.2

• Sea spiders
• coral reef
• northeastern Brazil
• Anoplodactylus mirim
• A. pygmaeus complex

A new species of Anoplodactylus was discovered in coral reefs from the State of Paraiba, northeastern Brazil. A. mirim sp. nov. is very small and is characterized for having 3 teeth on the cheliphores and a very small cement gland. It belongs to the A. pygmaeus complex, which contains very small species. A. batangensis is recorded for the first time along the Brazilian coast, and A. eroticus is recorded for the first time in the South Atlantic. We record the fifth known case of gynandromorphism, the fourth for Anoplodactylus, based on two specimens of A. eroticus.

• 出版日期2015-8-18