A new species of the hairy crab genus Pilumnus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae) from Belize

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4711 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-184
Author(s):  
TATIANA MAGALHÃES ◽  
DARRYL L. FELDER
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Markers ◽  
New Species ◽  
Water Column ◽  
Ovigerous Female ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Red Mangrove ◽  
Mangrove Roots ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the pilumnid crab genus Pilumnus Leach, 1815, P. mantelattoi n. sp., is described and illustrated on the basis of a single ovigerous female specimen from Belize, bordering the northwestern Caribbean Sea. The holotype, an ovigerous female, was taken from an epifaunal accumulation of sponges, ascidians, and hydroids on red mangrove roots suspended in the water column. Superficially resembling Pilumnus floridanus Stimpson, 1871, with which it occurs sympatrically, it is distinguished from this and all other known western Atlantic species on the basis of both morphology and molecular markers. 

A new deep-sea species of the caridean genus Bresilia Calman, 1896 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from Sagami Bay, central Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4299 (3) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
HISANORI KOHTSUKA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Ovigerous Female ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Sagami Bay ◽  
Central Japan ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the rare caridean genus Bresilia Calman, 1896, B. cinctus, is described and illustrated on the basis of a single ovigerous female specimen collected from Sagami Bay, central Japan, at 218–318 m depth. The new species is morphologically most similar to B. rufioculus Komai & Yamada, 2011, known only from shallow water cave of Ie Island (depths 14–17 m), Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Islands, but many characters, including the proportionally shorter rostrum, the well developed suborbital lobe of the carapace, and the presence of a spiniform seta on the ventral surface of the pereopod 1 palm, immediately distinguish the new species from B. rufioculus. Bresilia cinctus n. sp. is the first species of the genus known from the Japanese main islands. The discovery of the new species led us to reassess the merit of the informal division of Bresilia proposed by Komai & Yamada (2010). An identification key to the ten named species of Bresilia is presented. 

Uroptychus atlanticus, a new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from the western Atlantic Ocean

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4227 (2) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
KEIJI BABA ◽  
MARY K. WICKSTEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Squat Lobster ◽  
Western Atlantic Ocean ◽  
A New Species

A new species of squat lobster, Uroptychus atlanticus, is described on the basis of a female specimen taken at a depth of 713–841 m in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. The new species is readily distinguished from all known species of the genus from the western Atlantic by the very spinose carapace and pereopods, and a transverse row of spines on each of the abdominal tergites 1 and 2. 

A new deep-sea species of Epimeria Costa in Hope, 1851 (Amphipoda, Amphilochidea, Epimeriidae) from off southwestern Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4803 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
I. WINFIELD ◽  
M.E. HENDRICKX
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Ovigerous Female ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Distal Margin ◽  
Ventral Margin ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
A New Species

A single ovigerous female specimen of a new species of Epimeria Costa in Hope, 1851 was collected from deep sea, off southwestern Mexico, in the eastern Pacific. Epimeria karamani sp. nov., is most similar to females of E. cora J.L. Barnard, 1971, E. pacifica Gurjanova, 1995 and Epimeria morronei Winfield, Ortiz & Hendrickx, 2013. However, it differs from these species by: eyes long and slightly kidney-shaped; pleonite 3 strongly carinate, with dorsal tooth produced and acute; urosomite 1 with a wide mid-dorsal notch and a strong, upright blunt tooth; coxa 3 anterior margin slightly truncate and with two processes marginally; coxa 4 ventral margin linear, with facial granules and simple setae; gnathopods palm with distal bifid setae; telson straight medially, distal margin crenulate and with minute setae. The new species described herein increases the number of Epimeria species from the Pacific Ocean to 14, and from the eastern Pacific to three. 

Palaemonella shirakawai, a new species of shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), associated with burrow dwelling opistognathid fish from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4299 (4) ◽  
pp. 521
Author(s):  
JUNJI OKUNO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
Ovigerous Female ◽  
Distal Margin ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Median Carina ◽  
The Ryukyu Islands ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new palaemonid shrimp, Palaemonella shirakawai sp. nov., is described and illustrated on the basis of a single ovigerous female specimen captured from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. It appears closest to P. aliska Marin by sharing the median carina of the carapace armed with dorsal rostral teeth extending posterior to the level of the hepatic tooth, but is immediately differentiated by the shorter rostrum, a rounded posterior margin of the telson, an elongate antennal scaphocerite with a truncate distal margin of lamella, and the longer second pereiopod. The present new species is an associate of burrow dwelling fishes belonging to the family Opistognathidae. 

A new species of the Stenopodidean shrimp Genus Spongicola (Crustacea: Decapoda: Spongicolidae) representing the first record of the genus from the Atlantic Ocean

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4648 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
BLADIMIR RODRÍGUEZ QUINTAL ◽  
JOSEPH W. GOY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ventral Edge ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the spongicolid genus Spongicola, S. liosomatus sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on three male specimens and one female specimen collected from off northern Blanquilla Island, Venezuela, Caribbean Sea at a depth of 135–160 m, representing the first species of the genus found in the Atlantic Ocean. It appears closest to S. levigatus Hayashi & Ogawa, 1987, S. teres Komai, 2015 and S. inflatus de Saint-Laurent & Cleva, 1981 in having reduced armature on the body and appendages. However, the unserrated ventral edge of the third pereiopods and the membranous ridges of the first and second pereiopod cutting edges, distinguish the new species from these three species as well as all other members of the genus. 

Two new species of Typton Costa, 1844 from tropical American waters, with taxonomic notes on T. tortugae McClendon, 1911 and a new record of T. granulosus Ayón-Parente, Hendrickx & Galvan-Villa, 2015 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4950 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-295
Author(s):  
ARTHUR ANKER ◽  
PAULO P.G. PACHELLE ◽  
MATTHIEU LERAY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Ovigerous Female ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Bocas Del Toro ◽  
Red Mangrove ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Southern Florida

Two new species of the palaemonid shrimp genus Typton Costa, 1844 are described based on material from Panama and Mexico. Both species are closely related to T. tortugae McClendon, 1911, a species originally described from the Dry Tortugas, off southern Florida, USA, and later scarcely recorded from other western Atlantic localities, from Bermuda to Mexico and Brazil. Some clarification and additional illustrations are provided for the type material of T. tortugae. Typton jonkayei sp. nov., is described based on material from fouling-encrusting communities dominated by sponges, growing on submerged roots of the red mangrove, Rhizhophora mangle L., in Bocas del Toro, Caribbean coast of Panama. This new species differs from T. tortugae in several morphological details, for instance, on the minor and major chelipeds (second pereiopods), telson, uropod, frontal margin and ambulatory pereiopods. Typton cousteaui sp. nov. is described based on a single ovigerous female dredged in the southern Gulf of California off Baja California Sur, Mexico, previously reported as T. tortugae. This new taxon seems to represent a true cryptic species with no significant morphological divergence from the allopatrically isolated T. tortugae, except for slight morphometric differences. In addition, T. granulosus Ayón-Parente, Hendrickx & Galvan-Villa, 2015 is recorded from the Pacific coast of Panama, based on material collected in the Coiba Archipelago. Some taxonomic, distributional and ecological remarks are provided for T. granulosus and the closely related T. serratus Holthuis, 1951. 

Description of a new species of Pachycheles (Decapoda, Anomura, Porcellanidae) from the southern Caribbean Sea

Crustaceana ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 90 (7-10) ◽  
pp. 1279-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Werding ◽  
Alexandra Hiller
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
16S Rdna Gene ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Isthmus Of Panama ◽  
Southern Caribbean ◽  
Mitochondrial 16S Rdna ◽  
A New Species

A new species of porcellanid crab from the southern Caribbean Sea is described. Pachycheles tuerkayi n. sp. has been confused with P. serratus (Benedict, 1901) since the 1950s because the two species are morphologically and ecologically similar and have overlapping distributions in the southern Caribbean. P. tuerkayi n. sp. is restricted to the coasts of Costa Rica, Panamá and Colombia. P. serratus ranges from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to the coasts of Panamá, Colombia and Venezuela. Genetic differences based on DNA sequences of the mitochondrial 16S rDNA gene from the two species surpassed those estimated for geminate porcellanids on each side of the Isthmus of Panamá. Field observations where P. tuerkayi n. sp. and P. serratus overlap indicated that the two species come into contact when sharing the same substrate. The total number of porcellanid species in the western Atlantic rises to 50.

scholarly journals A new species of scaly blenny of the genus Labrisomus (Actinopterygii: Labrisomidae) from the tropical West Atlantic

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAN SAZIMA ◽  
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO ◽  
JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI ◽  
CRISTINA SAZIMA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Dark Spot ◽  
Rocky Shores ◽  
Southwestern Atlantic ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Light Blue ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Fernando De Noronha ◽  
A New Species

A new species of scaly blenny, Labrisomus conditus sp. n., is described from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeastern Brazil. It differs from its Western Atlantic congeners by the following combination of characters: nuchal cirri when depressed not reaching dorsal-fin origin, 68 to 73 lateral line scales, first and second dorsal-fin spines slightly shorter than third spine and not flexible, numerous pale dots overall (light blue in life), opercular dark spot with incomplete and diffuse broad pale margin (orange in life). The new species is a territorial bottom-dweller in rocky shores and is found among algae and in crevices at depths from 0.5 to 6 m. Labrisomus conditus sp. n. feeds mostly on crustaceans (crabs, amphipods) and molluscs (snails, bivalves). The new species increases to five the species within the genus Labrisomus recorded from Southwestern Atlantic.

A new western Atlantic species ofEurysquilla(Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Eurysquilloidea) with a key to the world species

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 1329-1333
Author(s):  
Débora Lucatelli ◽  
Shane T. Ahyong ◽  
Luis Ernesto Arruda Bezerra ◽  
Paulo Jorge Parreira Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
World Species ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

A new species of eurysquilloid stomatopod,Eurysquilla petronioisp. nov., is described from the tropical western Atlantic.Eurysquilla petronioisp. nov. is the fourteenth species of the genus to be recognized worldwide, the fifth species from the western Atlantic and the second from Brazilian waters. It is most closely related toE. maiaguesensisfrom Puerto Rico, but differs chiefly in having an unarmed versus apically spinous rostral plate and 6 or 7 rather than 8–10 teeth on dactylus of raptorial claw. A key to the species of the genus is provided.

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