Ascorhynchus castellioides Stock, 1957

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 : 37

Ascorhynchus castellioides Stock, 1957

Ascorhynchus castellioides Stock, 1957: 82–84 , fig. 2.

Ascorhynchus castellioides – Bayer et al. 1970: A48, A117. — Stock 1975a: 968; 1986: tab. 1. — Birkeland et al. 1976: 133. — Child 1979: 15. — Müller 1992a: 45. — Arango & Wheeler 2007: appendix 1, tab. 3, figs 1–4 (phylogeny), fig. 8 (phylogeny). — Müller & Krapp 2009: 10, 55 (key), 57–58, 130–131, 137 (list), tabs 1, 3, fig. 28. — Arabi et al. 2010: tab. 2, figs 1–3 (phylogeny). — Krapp & Viquez 2011: 205, tab. 1. — Sabroux et al. 2017: appendices 1–2, figs 3–5 (phylogeny); 2019b: tab. 1, figs 3, 5. — Wagner et al. 2017: 122 (list), 123–125, 128–130, 132–133, figs 2c, 3c, 5c, 6c. — Lucena et al. 2019: 2, 3 (list), 12–14, 20–21, fig. 7.

Type material

Holotype: ZMH-A0000719 (not examined). Type locality: Puerto Cabello, Venezuela .

Material examined

MARTINIQUE • 1 ♂ ov.; Baie de Fort-de-France ; 14°36.1ʹ N, 61°04ʹ W; depth 0–1 m; 29 Sep. 2016; st. AM034; MNHN-IU-2016-853/ MK411166 • 1 ♀ gr.; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN- IU-2016-882 • 1 ♀ gr.; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-883/ MK411192 • 5 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-574 • 4 ♂♂, 2 ♂♂ ov., 2 ♀♀, 1 ♀ gr., 1 juv.; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-1084 • 1 juv.; Presqu’Île de la Caravelle ; 14°48.4ʹ N, 60°52.8ʹ W; depth 23–25 m; 20 Sep. 2016; st. AB197; MNHN-IU-2016-573 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; MNHN-IU-2016-576 • 1 ♂; Le Prêcheur ; 14°47.2ʹ N, 61°13.1ʹ W; depth 2 m; 3 Oct. 2016; st. AB382; MNHN-IU-2016-583 .

Remarks

Widely distributed in the Tropical West Atlantic, the species is here recorded for the first time in Martinique. Most of the specimens were collected at two stations, one off the Presqu’Île de la Caravalle (Atlantic coast) and the other at Baie de Fort-de-France; one record from Le Prêcheur (north Caribbean coast).

Distribution

Tropical West Atlantic: Caribbean ( Venezuela, Panama, Florida, Columbia, Barbados, Martinique, Bonaire, Curaçao) and Brazil (Pernambuco and Paraíba).

Depth range

0– 30 m.