Spectral sensitivities of five marine decapod crustaceans and a review of spectral sensitivity variation in relation to habitat

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 835-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus L. Johnson ◽  
Edward Gaten ◽  
Peter M.J. Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Sensitivity ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Decapod Crustaceans ◽  
Nephrops Norvegicus ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Near Ultraviolet ◽  
Coastal Species ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
Water Species

The spectral sensitivities of five species of decapod crustaceans have been determined by electroretinogram measurements. Their spectral sensitivities conform to the general picture for marine crustacea with high sensitivity to blue-green wavelengths and some showing sensitivity to violet/near ultraviolet. Two deep-water species (Paromola cuvieri and Chaceon (Geryon) affinis) have spectral sensitivity maxima below 500 nm, whereas the three coastal species examined (Crangonallmani, Pandalus montagui and Nephrops norvegicus) are maximally sensitive to light of longer wavelengths (510 to 525 nm).

Gill morphology and formulae of crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea: Parastacidae) from New Guinea and New Zealand and a comparison with other selected species of crayfishes

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadashi Kawai ◽  
Jiří Patoka
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
South American ◽  
Decapod Crustaceans ◽  
The Family ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
Gill Morphology ◽  
Water Species

Abstract The Infraorder Astacidea comprises four superfamilies of decapod crustaceans: the freshwater Astacoidea and Parastacoidea and the marine Enoplometopoidea and Nephropoidea. The gill morphology of four species of crayfishes belonging to Astacoidea and Parastacoidea, two coral reef species of Enoplometopoidea, and 2 deep-water species of Nephropoidea are described and illustrated for comparisons and to determine characters characteristic to members of the family Parastacidae (Parastacoidea) from New Guinea. Morphology of the arthrobranchs and pleurobranchs were similar among all species, having a single stem with filament, but podobranchs of the parastacoideans differed from those of Astacoidea, being corrugated and tubular and having filaments. The astacoidean P. virginalis had a plate-like lamella with filament. The two nephropoid and two enoplometopoid species were similar to each other; their podobranch had a flat blade-like lamella without a filament and a shaft with a filament. The gill formulae of the New Guinea species of Cherax were the same as those of the Australian congeners, but the formula of the New Zealand Paranephrops planifronsWhite, 1842 was the same as those of the South American parastacids.

Bougainvillia aberrans (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), a new species of hydroid and medusa from the upper bathyal zone off Bermuda

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 997-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale R. Calder
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
North Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Water Species

Bougainvillia aberrans n.sp. is described from Bermuda in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Specimens were collected at a depth of 150 fathoms (274 m) from the polypropylene buoy line of a crab trap. The hydroid colony of B. aberrans is erect, with a polysiphonic hydrocaulus, a smooth to somewhat wrinkled perisarc, hydranths having a maximum of about 16 tentacles, and medusa buds arising only from hydranth pedicels. Medusae liberated in the laboratory from these hydroids differ from all other known species of the genus in having a long, spindle-shaped manubrium, lacking oral tentacles, having marginal tentacles reduced to mere stubs, and being very short-lived (surviving for a few hours at most). Gonads develop in medusa buds while they are still attached to the hydroids, and gametes are shed either prior to liberation of the medusae or shortly thereafter. The eggs are surrounded by an envelope bearing nematocysts (heterotrichous microbasic euryteles). The cnidome of both hydroid and medusa stages consists of desmonemes and heterotrichous microbasic euryteles. The diagnosis of the genus Bougainvillia is modified to accommodate this new deep-water species.

A new deep-water palaemonid shrimp genus and species from the French Antilles, with a new record of Periclimenes milleri Bruce, 1986 (Decapoda: Caridea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4834 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-424
Author(s):  
ARTHUR ANKER ◽  
LAURE CORBARI
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Depth Range ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
French Antilles ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Water Species

A new genus and species in the caridean shrimp family Palaemonidae is described based on three type specimens collected at a depth range of 208–385 m off Guadeloupe, French Antilles. Zoukaris festivus gen. et sp. nov. shares many characters with several western Atlantic deep-water species currently assigned to Periclimenes Costa, 1844, as well as with the monotypic western Atlantic genus Diapontonia Bruce, 1986 and the Indo-West Pacific genus Echinopericlimenes Marin & Chan, 2014. Zoukaris gen. nov. can be separated from all of them by a unique combination of morphological features, especially the configuration of the dactylus of the ambulatory pereiopods. In addition, Periclimenes milleri Bruce, 1986 is recorded from the French Antilles based on a single specimen, also from Guadeloupe; its colour pattern is illustrated for the first time. 

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