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Issue: Vol. 4000 No. 4: 18 Aug. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.4.2
Page range: 428–444
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

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

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas–Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, CEP: 58051-900, Brasil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas–Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, CEP: 58051-900, Brasil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas–Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, CEP: 58051-900, Brasil Laboratório de Biodiversidade de Invertebrados Não-Insetos, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, CEP: 58051-900, Brasil.
Sea spiders coral reef northeastern Brazil Anoplodactylus mirim A. pygmaeus complex

Abstract

A new species of Anoplodactylus was discovered in coral reefs from the State of Paraíba, 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.