Trygaeus communis Dohrn, 1881

Lehmann, Tobias, Hess, Martin & Melzer, Roland R., 2014, Common littoral pycnogonids of the Mediterranean Sea, Zoosystematics and Evolution 90 (2), pp. 163-224 : 165

Taxon classification Animalia Pantopoda Ammotheidae

Trygaeus communis Dohrn, 1881 Figures 4, 22, 23, 24, 25

Material.

ZSMA20071509: female; Giglio Island, Italy; 12.04.2005. ZSMA20071510: male; Giglio Island, Italy; 12.04.2005. ZSMA20071511: male; Giglio Island, Italy; 12.04.2005. ZSMA20071512: male; Giglio Island, Italy; 12.04.2005. ZSMA20071513: male; Cape Kamenjak, Croatia; 03.05.2007; 0-5 m; Stypocaulon scoparium (Linnaeus) Kützing, 1843.

Remarks.

According to Dohrn (1881), Bouvier (1923) and Stock (1966) the palps vary in the number of articles from 4 to 7 and the oviger from 6 to 10. Here the palp has 7 articles (Fig. 23A) and the male and female oviger have 9 articles (Fig. 23C, D; Fig. 25D). Other specimens not depicted have four palp articles.