Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from Uruguayan waters (Southwest Atlantic): annotated checklist and biogeographic considerations
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Scarabino, Fabrizio
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Lucena, Rudá Amorim
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Munilla, Tomás
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Soler-Membrives, Anna
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Ortega, Leonardo
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Schwindt, Evangelina
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López, Guzmán
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María, José
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Christoffersen, Martin Lidsey
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-24
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4550.2.2
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Colossendeis geoffroyi
Mañé-Garzón, 1944
Distribution:
Rio Grande do Sul
(
Brazil
,
33°50´S–
51°51´W
,
65 m
) to northern
Argentine
shelf (down to 40°S) (
Mañé-Garzón 1944
;
Stock 1966
,
1992
;
Larramendy 1974
).
Uruguayan records:
Mañé-Garzón (1944)
:
36°05´S–
53°03´W
,
130 m
depth (
type
locality).
Remarks:
Stock (1966)
reported many specimens of
C. geoffroyi
collected by the RV
Calypso
1961
–1962 cruise station 172. Due to the mixing of materials, he reported specimens belonging to this species collected in one or more of six additional stations from that cruise (105, 149, 160, 161, 171 and 173) between
Rio de Janeiro
,
Brazil
and
Buenos Aires Province
,
Argentina
.
Larramendy (1974)
identified
18 specimens
from Argentinean waters (
37°23´S–
40°01´S
) collected by the RV
Walther Herwig
(
1966–1971
) as
C. geoffroyi
. He indicated that these do not differ from the original description, but complemented the description with additional details.
Stock (1992)
reported one fragmented specimen from the coast of
Rio de Janeiro
(
23°25´S–
43°00´W
,
113 m
depth), that he assigned with doubts to
C. geoffroyi
.
He commented that “if…really this species, the range would be considerably extended in northward direction”.
Stock (1992)
stated that the material reported by
Minnard & Zamponi (1984)
as
C. geoffroyi
seems to belong to a different species, given the differences illustrated by the Argentinean authors: “tarsus is [illustrated as being] almost twice as long as propodus; in
C. geoffroyi
both parts are almost equal in length”. Moreover, the data associated with that material is dubious. The RV
Walther Herwig
station 340 (cruise 1966) is not at
200 m
depth, as reported by
Minnard & Zamponi (1984)
, but
165 m
depth; furthermore it is not located off Mar del Plata, as indicated by
Stock (1992)
, but instead is off southern
Argentina
(
53°57´S–
58°46´W
).
López de
Levy (1989)
gave a general description of females attributed to
C. geoffroyi
mañé-garzón, 1944, obtained as by-catch in the commercial fishery off the La Plata River (Uruguay-Argentina, 35°–39°S) (López de Levy, pers. comm. to FS 2005).