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Some Pycnogonida from Cook Strait, New Zealand, with descriptions of two new species

Remarks

Remarks

I have some slight doubt as to whether the female specimen is in fact of the same species as the male described here or of another very similar and undescribed species. This matter cannot be taken any further on the material at present available. The lateral swelling on the fourth oviger segment of the male is reminiscent of the subgenus Pallenopsodon Stock (1956), but since this species has a tubular duct to the cement gland, and differs in the armature of the 10th oviger joint it is no doubt to be placed in Pallenopsis s. str. I name this fine species after the mythical Maori figure Maui, who is said to have fished up the North Island of New Zealand, and was therefore probably the first man to have fished in Cook Strait.

Figs. 20–21. Pallenopsis sp. 20—Dorsal view. 21—Third leg. 22—Chela. Scale applies to Fig. 20 only.

Figs. 20–21. Pallenopsis sp. 20—Dorsal view. 21—Third leg. 22—Chela. Scale applies to Fig. 20 only.