Paracaprella guerragarciai Winfield and Ortiz, 2013

Paz-Ríos, Carlos E., Guerra-García, José M. & Ardisson, Pedro-Luis, 2014, REVIEW ARTICLE Caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Gulf of Mexico, with observations on Deutella mayeri, redescription of Metaprotella hummelincki, a taxonomic key and zoogeographical comments, Journal of Natural History 48 (41 - 42), pp. 2517-2578 : 2549

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2014.931481
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6489838
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scientific name	Paracaprella guerragarciai Winfield and Ortiz, 2013
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Type locality

Lobos reef, Veracruz.

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico ( Winfield and Ortiz 2013).

Records in the Gulf of Mexico

MEX: Lobos reef, Veracruz ( Winfield and Ortiz 2013).

Habitat

Coral rubble of Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816) , at 16 m depth ( Winfield and Ortiz 2013).

Remarks

Paracaprella guerragarciai can be easily distinguished from all species in the genus Paracaprella by the setose dorsal body.

This species is the second caprellid species discovered and described originally from the Gulf of Mexico, since Mayer (1903) discovered D. incerta (described as L. incerta ) in the Mississippi – Alabama continental shelf a century ago.

References

Mayer P. 1903. Die Caprellidae der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga Exped. 34: 1 - 160.

Winfield I, Ortiz M. 2013. The Caprellidea (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from the Gulf of Mexico with a description of a new species of Paracaprella. Sci Mar. 77: 161 - 168.

Figures

Figure 16. Paracaprella guerragarciai Winfield and Ortiz, 2013. Veracruz, Mexico; holotype male, CNCR#26736; paratype female, CNCR#26737. Refigured from Winfield and Ortiz (2013). Scale bar for male: 1 mm; scale bar for female: 0.7 mm.