Pycnogonum tenue
Pycnogonum tenue Slater, 1879
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Family:  Pycnogonidae ()
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Environment:  benthic; marine; depth range 7 - 416 m
Distribution:  Northwest Pacific: Alaska and Japan.
Diagnosis:  Trunk and appendage integument lightly reticulated or sometimes unreticulated but granular. Trunk with slender dorsomedian tubercles, rounded or pointed. Lateral processes slightly longer than diameter, closely spaced but separated distally, with low dorsodistal bulges sometimes becoming a continuous dorsal ridge. Proboscis a long tapering truncate cone with flat oral surface. Abdomen fairly long, slender, tapering distally, extending beyond distal rim of first coxae, fourth legs. Oviger 9 segmented, of moderate size, terminal claw slightly curved. Legs with moderately slender major segments, with very few short spines. Propodus tapers distally to smaller diameter, sole with pile of short spines, claw robust, long, more than half length of propodus, auxiliary claws lacking (Ref. 2153, p. 16).
Biology:  Shelf to upper slope (Ref. 19).
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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