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Journal article

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Title

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

Abstract

We describe Hedgpethia spinose 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 Hedgpethia bicornis (Losina-Losinsky & Turpaeva, 1958), Hedgpethia chitinosa (Hilton, 1943), and probably Hedgpethia brevitarsis (Losina-Losinsky & Turpaeva, 1958), in having a mid-dorsal tubercle on the posterior rim on each trunk segment. The new species, however, is distinguishable from those by a pair of horns on the anterior margin of the cephalic segment, spines on the first coxae, and denticulate spines on the strigilis. The new species represents the fifth member of the genus so far known from Japanese waters, in addition to Hedgpethia brevitarsis (Losina-Losinsky & Turpaeva, 1958), Hedgpethia chitinosa (Hilton, 1943), Hedgpethia dofleini (Loman, 1911), and Hedgpethia elongate Takahashi, Dick & Mawatari, 2007.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000303307800005

Bibliographic citation

Kajihara, H.; Takahashi, Y.; Mawatari, S.F. (2012). A new species of Hedgpethia (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida, Colossendeidae) from southwestern Japan. ZooKeys 175(175): 69-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.175.2612

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Marine

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true

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open access

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true