Elasmopus brasiliensis (Dana, 1853)

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo, Dolbeth, Marina, Prata, Jessica, da Silva, Francisco de Assis, da Silva, Geuba Maria Bernardo, de Freitas, Paulo Ragner Silva, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, de Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, Massei, Karina & de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva, 2021, Marine invertebrates associated with rhodoliths / maerl beds from northeast Brazil (State of Paraiba), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62736-62736 : 62736

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e62736

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scientific name

Elasmopus brasiliensis (Dana, 1853)
status

 

Elasmopus brasiliensis (Dana, 1853)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-167, CZAP-109), (CZAP-272); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (20, 2), (1); Location: locality: Seixas and Maceió Beaches; verbatimDepth: (1.5 m, 4.0 m), (4.0 m)

Distribution

Atlantic Ocean: Caribbean Sea, Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States); Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea ( Serejo and Siqueira 2018, Horton et al. 2020a).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas and Maceió Beaches (New records).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Oliveira 1951): Dark dorsum. Head with two ellipsoid eyes, twice longer than large, located close to lobe between both antennae. Pereopod coxae 1-4 of similar length and almost twice the size of the 5-7 ones (5th with an anterior lobe wider than posterior). First pairs of antennae longer than second ones (Fig. 9 b). First pair of gnathopods longer than second ones. Males telson similarly longer than wide, with a median cleft to about 2/3 of its length; in females, cleft close to base and as long as broad.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Melitidae

Genus

Elasmopus