Nymphopsis duodorsospinosa Hilton, 1942

Sabroux, Romain, Hassanin, Alexandre & Corbari, Laure, 2022, Sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) collected during the Madibenthos Expedition from Martinique shallow waters, European Journal of Taxonomy 851 (1), pp. 1-141 : 24

Nymphopsis duodorsospinosa Hilton, 1942

Nymphopsis duodorsospinosa Hilton, 1942a: 303–305 , pl. 45.

Nymphopsis duodorsospinosa – Hedgpeth 1948: 250–252, fig. 40. — Child & Hedgpeth 1971: 609 (list). — Kraeuter 1973: 496. — Stock 1975a: 978; 1986: tab. 1. — Birkeland et al. 1976: 134, 157. — Krapp & Kraeuter 1976: 342. — Child 1979: 1, 21; 1992b: 8 (key), 30–31, tab. 3, fig. 13; 2009: 818 (list). — Arango & Wheeler 2007: appendix 1, tab. 1, figs 1–4 (phylogeny), 5d, 8 (phylogeny). — Müller & Krapp 2009: 10, 13, 38–39, 133, 137 (list), tab. 1, figs 15–16. — Arabi et al. 2010: 447, tab. 2, figs 1–3 (phylogeny). — Krapp & Viquez 2011: 204–206, tab. 1. — Sabroux et al. 2017: 14, appendices 1–2, figs 3–5 (phylogeny); 2019b: tab. 1, fig. 3. — León-Espinosa et al. 2021: tab. 1.

Nymphopsis duodorsospinosum – Child 1982a: 363.

Type material

Holotype: USNM 170494 (not examined). Type locality: San Francisquito Bay, South California.

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♂; Pointe du Diamant; 14°27.5ʹ N, 61°02.9ʹ W; depth 3 m; 15 Sep. 2016; st. AB126; MNHN-IU-2016-812/ MK411134 .

Remarks

This species is regularly sampled in the Tropical West Atlantic, but is never abundantly collected. This is the first record of N. duodorsospinosa for Martinique, on the Caribbean coast.

Distribution

East Pacific (California, Galápagos, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica), West Atlantic ( US Georgia, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico).

Depth range

0– 72 m.