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Anoplodactylus lentus Wilson, 1878 
AphiaID: 158478

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Chelicerata (Subphylum) > Pycnogonida (Class) > Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Phoxichilidoidea (Superfamily) > Phoxichilidiidae (Family) > Anoplodactylus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Anoplodactylus Wilson, 1878
Synonymised
taxa
  Anoplodactylus pallida (Say, 1821) (nomen oblitum)
Sources  basis of record: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details]

basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Child, C. A. 2009. Pycnogonida and Xiphosura (Cheliceriformes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 815–820 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English lentil sea spider  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
West North Atlantic [details]
Specimen  Unknown type , locality Atlantic (Vineyard Sound, New England, USA) [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Pycnogonid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: eats hydroids [details]

Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Florida; West Indies; Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: Found in the littoral and sublittoral zones, over hard and algal covered substrate. [details]

Habitat: shelly bottom "clinging to and creeping over the hydroids and ascidians" [details]

Habitat: shelf to slope [details]

Taxonomy: Order: Kentrogonida, according to Trott (2004). [details]

Additional information: Anaphia pallida Say, 1821 is presumed to be this species, but as the original descripiton and figure are inadequate, that taxon was relegated to nomen oblitum by Hedgpeth (1948) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158478
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-01-19 16:36:29Z  checked  Bamber, Roger
  
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  Citation: Bamber, R. (2013). Anoplodactylus lentus Wilson, 1878. In: Bamber, R.N., El Nagar, A. (Eds) (2013). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158478 on 2013-05-22
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