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Deep-water Pycnogonida of the INCAL, BIOGAS, GEOMANCHE and SAFARI cruises
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
Abstract
Ten species of deep-water Pycnogonida are recorded, mainly from the north-eastern Atlantic Basin. Of particular interest are Ascorhynchus abyssi Sars (new to the British Isles), Colossendeis arcuata A. Milne Edwards (northernmost record in European waters), C. bicinc0ta Schimkewitsch (third Atlantic record, depth range increased), C. macerrima Wilson (new records from the English Channel), Nymphon laterospinum Stock (new to the Indian Ocean), Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) oscitans (Hoek) (new to the English Channel and bathymetrical range extension), P. (B.) tritonis Hoek (extension of depth range), P. (B.) tydemani caraibica Stock (second European record, now found at the entrance of the English Channel), and Anoplodactylus arnaudae Stock (range extended to the Rockall Trench).
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , November 1984 , pp. 743 - 749
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1984
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