Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from Uruguayan waters (Southwest Atlantic): annotated checklist and biogeographic considerations
Author
Scarabino, Fabrizio
Author
Lucena, Rudá Amorim
Author
Munilla, Tomás
Author
Soler-Membrives, Anna
Author
Ortega, Leonardo
Author
Schwindt, Evangelina
Author
López, Guzmán
Author
María, José
Author
Christoffersen, Martin Lidsey
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-24
4550
2
185
200
journal article
27492
10.11646/zootaxa.4550.2.2
2c967830-701d-424c-a044-d61885a8c2c5
1175-5326
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AB41359C-FDBB-483C-B538-BD8D51F42FA2
Family
Ammotheidae Dohrn, 1881
Remarks
: The description of
Tanystylum isthmiacum difficile
Stock, 1966
was based on a single female collected at one of nine RV
Calypso
1961
–1962 cruise stations between north
Brazil
and
Buenos Aires Province
(
Argentina
). Owing to a mix-up in material (see
Stock 1966
), the exact station is not known, and thus its presence in Uruguayan waters is uncertain (
Stock 1966
).
Fage & Stock (1966)
and
Stock (1975)
recorded this subspecies from
Cape Verde
Islands (eastern Atlantic,
40 m
depth) and northern
Brazil
(at depth between
51–93 m
) respectively. It was also doubtfully recorded from shallow subtidal waters (
6–9 m
depth) on the Caribbean coast of
Panama
(
Child 1979
).
Stock (1992)
recorded this subspecies from southeast
Brazil
(19°S,
28 m
depth).
Müller & Krapp (2009)
considered
T. isthmiacum
Stock, 1955
to be a morphologically variable species and did not follow the separation of that species into two subspecies. They also compiled the known distribution of this species in the Eastern Pacific, Western Atlantic and Eastern Atlantic.
Tanystylum orbiculare
Wilson, 1878
has been recorded from the littoral zone of the
Buenos Aires Province
(
Argentina
) by several authors (
Stock 1966
;
Bremec
et al
. 1986
;
Genzano 2002
).
Achelia assimilis
(Haswell, 1885)
has been recorded from the
Buenos Aires Province
(
Argentina
) (e. g.
Stock 1966
;
Bremec
et al.
1986
;
Genzano 2002
;
Albano
et al.
2006
) from near-shore locations; elsewhere it has been recorded for Subantarctic localities (e. g.
Child 1994a
). The taxonomy of species belonging to this genus remains problematic (see
Child 1994a
).