Sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) collected during the Madibenthos Expedition from Martinique shallow waters Author Sabroux, Romain F48B4ABE-06BD-41B1-B856-A12BE97F9653 Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA. 57 rue Cuvier, CP 51, 75005 Paris, France. pycnogonides@gmail.com Author Hassanin, Alexandre 6CAA213C-384A-4111-8F70-1E8E07D3347D Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA. 57 rue Cuvier, CP 51, 75005 Paris, France. alexandre.hassanin@mnhn.fr Author Corbari, Laure 9E5EBA7B-C2F2-4F30-9FD5-1A0E49924F13 Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA. 57 rue Cuvier, CP 51, 75005 Paris, France. corbari@mnhn.fr text European Journal of Taxonomy 2022 2022-12-12 851 1 1 141 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.851.1999 journal article 221137 10.5852/ejt.2022.851.1999 c70e23de-1f95-46fb-899b-9754b6145d52 2118-9773 7428095 7317EA8C-7C05-4E24-A38C-30F860013694 Endeis aff. mollis ( Carpenter, 1904 ) Fig. 18 Phoxichilus mole Carpenter, 1904: 182–183 , figs 1–7. Phoxichilus mollis – Carpenter 1907: 98 . — Loman 1908: 77–78 . Endeis mollis – Calman 1923: 293–294 , fig. 16; 1927: 408; 1938: 160. — Stock 1951: 17–18 , figs 23–24; 1957: 85–86; 1965: 31; 1966a: 54; 1975a: 1083–1085; 1975b: 76; 1986: 440; 1994: 19 (list), 68; 1997: 407. — Barnard 1954: 130–132 , fig. 21. — Bourdillon 1954a: 4–8 , figs 1–3. — Child 1977a: 441 ; 1979: 66 ; 1988a: 20–21; 1991: 144–145 . — Nakamura & Child 1983: 41 ; 1988a: 664 . — Arnaud 1987: 52. — Munilla 1994: 110 . — Arango 2001: 656 ; 2002: 115 , 120, tab. 1, figs 2–4 (phylogeny); 2003b: 2761, 2765, tab. 2, fig. 15. — Chimenz Gusso & Lattanzi 2003 : tab. 1. — Paulay et al. 2003: appendix (list). — Bamber 2004 : tab. 2; 2007: 256 (list). — Veena et al. 2008: 17–19 , tab. 1, figs 3–5. — Müller & Krapp 2009: 115 (key), 117–119, 133, 137 (list), tab. 1, fig. 62. — Krapp & Viquez 2011: 204 , tab. 1. — Gul & Ghani 2012: 206 . — Sabroux et al. 2017 : appendices 1–2, figs 3–5 (phylogeny); 2019b: fig. 3. — Dietz et al. 2018: 9 . — Lucena & Christoffersen 2018a: 108 . — Lucena et al. 2019 : tab. 1. — Wang et al. 2021: 6 . Endeis cf. mollis – Sabroux et al. 2019b: 1530 , tab. 1, fig. 3. Type material Endeis mollis ( Carpenter, 1904 ) . Type(s): unknown. Type locality: Cheval Paar, Sri Lanka . Fig. 18. Endeis aff. mollis ( Carpenter, 1904 ) , ♂, MNHN-IU-2016-565. A . Body, dorsal view. B . Body, lateral view (same scale as A). C . Oviger. D . Last two oviger articles. E . Third leg. Material examined MARTINIQUE • 1 ♀ ; Baie de Fort-de-France ; 14°32.6ʹ N , 61°04.7ʹ W ; depth 0–1 m ; 6 Sep. 2016 ; st. AM002; MNHN-IU-2016-838/ MK411153 • 1 ♂ ov.; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN- IU-2016-565/ MK411116 • 2 ♀♀ ; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2017-216 • 1 ♀ ; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2017-217/ MK411200 . Remarks The general morphology of Martinique specimens corresponds well to the description in Carpenter (1904) , as well as that in Müller & Krapp (2009) , including the distal spiny tubercle on the lateral processes. However, these specimens are much smaller than other records (the trunk is about half as long as indicated in Müller & Krapp 2009 ), the ocular tubercle and lateral processes are smaller, and the number of observed cement gland pores is 13 rather than 19 as mentioned by Müller & Krapp (2019). The CO1 barcoding tree of Sabroux et al. (2019b) showed a sister-group relationship with a specimen of Endeis mollis from Caribbean Colombia identified by Arango & Wheeler (2007) , although the genetic distance is very high (p-distance = 0.157; see Appendix). It is therefore probably another species than E. mollis , but due to the complexity of taxonomy within Endeis , we refrain from describing it as a new species as long as a review for the genus is not available. All specimens were found at the same station, at the entrance of Baie de Fort-de-France. Distribution Endeis mollis is a commonly found pantropical species recorded from the Tropical West Atlantic (Caribbean, Surinam , Brazil ), West Africa (Occidental Sahara, off Guinea , Nigeria ), Indian Ocean ( South Africa , Madagascar , Somalia , Red Sea, Suez, Oman , Pakistan , India , Sri Lanka , Maldives , Christmas Islands, Philippines ) and the West Pacific ( Australia , Japan mainland, Ryukyu Islands, New Caledonia , Guam , Marianas Islands , Polynesia). There is only one record from the Western Mediterranean, north of Tunis . Depth range 0– 105 m .