Anoplodactylus pygmaeus (Hodge, 1864)

Lehmann, Tobias, Hess, Martin & Melzer, Roland R., 2014, Common littoral pycnogonids of the Mediterranean Sea, Zoosystematics and Evolution 90 (2), pp. 163-224 : 166

Taxon classification Animalia Pantopoda Phoxichilidiidae

Anoplodactylus pygmaeus (Hodge, 1864) Figures 45, 49, 50, 51, 52

Anoplodactylus derjugini (Losina-Losinsky, 1929)

Anoplodactylus exiguus (Dohrn, 1881)

Pallene pygmaea Hodge, 1864

Phoxichilidium exiguum Dohrn, 1881

Phoxichilidium pygmaeum Hoek, 1881

Material.

ZSMA20071481: female; Elba, Italy; 20.10.2004; 3-5 m. ZSMA20071482: female; Elba, Italy; 21.10.2004; 3-5 m. ZSMA20071483: male; Elba, Italy; 20.10.2004; 0.5-4 m. ZSMA20071484: male; Cape Kamenjak, Croatia; 03.05.2007; 0-5 m; Stypocaulon scoparium (Linnaeus) Kützing, 1843.

Remarks.

In the literature there is diverse information about the articulation of the oviger, 7 articles in Dohrn (1881) and 6 articles in Bouvier (1923) and King (1986) are reported. Here the ovigers have 6 articles (Fig. 50E, F).