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Pycnogonids from southern Spain: Fauna 1 Project
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
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One hundred and twelve Pycnogonids belonging to 18 species are recorded from waters of 12–490 m depth on both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar. Twenty-three specimens are Mediterranean (8 species) and 89 are Atlantic (14 species).
Hannonia stocki and Ammothella gibraltarensis are new species. Pentapycnon geayi is new to European waters and Pycnogonum nodulosum, Ammothella biunguiculata and Callipallene spectrum are new from southern Spanish waters.
A total of 38 species has now been reported for southern Spain.
INTRODUCTION
There are only two published papers on pycnogonids from southern Spanish waters: Munilla (1988) reported on mediolittoral and shallow-water taxa (0–12 m), with 11 species collected, while Stock (1987) recorded 20 species from deeper waters (135–2110 m).
The present collection of 112 specimens, from shallow to moderately deep waters, was carried out in July 1989 aboard the B/O ‘Garcia del Cid’ during the Project FAUNA 1, conducted by the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid (CSIC).
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , August 1993 , pp. 543 - 553
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1993
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