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Ammothea bigibbosa (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida), a new species of the Antarctic Peninsula waters

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A new species Ammothea bigibbosa, collected with the Agassiz trawl in Margarita Bay at 517 m, is described, illustrated and compared with the similar species A. gordonae and A. adunca.

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Acknowledgements

The Bentart-03 cruise was carried out under the auspices of the Spanish Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CICYT), Antarctic Program REN2001-1074. We wish to express our gratitude to the crew of “Hesperides”, to the scientific colleagues on the cruise and to the referees and editor for their suggestions for improving the paper.

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  1. Laboratorio de Zoología, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, España

    Tomás Munilla

  2. Centro Oceanográfico de Fuengirola, I.E.O., Puerto Pesquero s/n°, Fuengirola, Málaga, España

    Ana Ramos

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Munilla, T., Ramos, A. Ammothea bigibbosa (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida), a new species of the Antarctic Peninsula waters. Polar Biol 29, 70–72 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-005-0039-8

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