First record of Pentapycnon geayi Bouvier, 1911 (Pycnogonida: Pycnogonidae) in the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil

Luis Bezerra; Soraya Rabay; Helena Matthews-Cascon

doi:10.15560/13.2.2099

Check List 13(2): e19701, doi: 10.15560/13.2.2099

First record of Pentapycnon geayi Bouvier, 1911 (Pycnogonida: Pycnogonidae) in the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil

Soraya G. Rabay^‡, Helena Matthews-Cascon^‡, Luis E. Arruda Bezerra^§

‡ Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil§ Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil

Corresponding author: Luis Bezerra ( luiseab@gmail.com )

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Citation: Bezerra L, Rabay S, Matthews-Cascon H (2017) First record of Pentapycnon geayi Bouvier, 1911 (Pycnogonida: Pycnogonidae) in the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil. Check List 13(2): 2099. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.2.2099

Abstract

Contributions to the knowledge of the Pycnogonida fauna along the Brazilian coast are scarce. There are only 60 records for the coast of Brazil, and reports of this fauna are notably discontinuous. This is the first record of Pentapycnon geayi Bouvier, 1911 (Pycnogonida: Pycnogonidae) in the state of Ceará. This study adds a new bathymetric record and fills a gap in the distribution of P. geayi along the Brazilian coast. This report also provides important new data for Ceará because the diversity of Pycnogonida in this state is practically unknown.

Keywords

geographical distribution; Chelicerata; Pantopoda; sea spiders