A new species of Hedgpethia (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida, Colossendeidae) from southwestern Japan

We describe Hedgpethia spinosa sp. n. based on a single male specimen obtained from 197–207 m depth, south of Yaku Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Among 15 previously known congeners, the new species resembles H. bicornis (Losina-Losinsky & Turpaeva, 1958), H. chitinosa (Hilto...

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Main Authors: Yoshie Takahashi, Hiroshi Kajihara, Shunsuke Mawatari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2012-03-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=2553

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