New records of the larval forms Cerataspis monstrosa and Amphionides reynaudii (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the western tropical Atlantic
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Lira, Simone Maria De Albuquerque
Author
Santana, Claudeilton Severino De
Author
Lima, Cynthia Dayanne Mello De
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Montes, Manuel De Jesus Flores
Author
Schwamborn, Ralf
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Zootaxa
2017
4237
2
335
346
journal article
36426
10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.7
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1175-5326
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Cerataspis
monstrosa
(
Gray, 1828
)
(
Fig. 2
)
Cerataspis monstrosus
Gray 1828
: 8, pl. 6, figs. 5a, b.
Cryptopus Defrancii
Latreille 1829
: 100
.—
Milne Edwards: 1837
: 439
.
Cerataspis monstruosus
Milne Edwards 1837
: 438
.—
Gurney 1960
: 83
.
Lepsia tuberculosa
Quoy
1839 in
Guerin-Meneville 1839
: pl. 1, 3–4.
Aristaeus armatus
Bate 1881
: 188
-189; 1888, 312–316, pl. 45–46, figs. 1–2.
Cerataspis
monstrosa
Bonnier 1899
: 27
–49, pl. 3–6.
Aristaeus (Aristaeopsis) armatus
Alcock 1901: 41
.
Plesiopenaeus armatus
Crosnier & Forest 1973
: 294
–296, figs. 99, c–d.—
Tavares & Serejo 2007
: 33
–37, figs. 20–22.
Material
examined.
Brazil
,
Fernando de Noronha Archipelago
, “
Camadas Finas I
Project”,
St
FN-97,
03°46’46”S
032°21’57”W
,
0–150 m
,
bongo net
, 300-µm mesh size, 1
Mysis II
(
MOUFPE
15.706
).
Diagnosis for the larvae.
Body with large sculptured carapace that surrounds most of the body, including part of the abdomen, post-orbital dorsal horns, pterygostomian ventral horns; short rostrum, ventrally bent without teeth. Large and stalked eyes. Lateral swellings on the carapace, both anterior and posterior dorsal organs and four pairs of dorsal tubercles. Short abdomen without spines; telson with three lateral spines and the six setae inside the furca on each lobe (modified from
Heegaard 1966
;
Morgan
et al.
1985
).
Geographic distribution (larval form).
western Mediterranean
:
Gibraltar
; eastern
North
Atlantic: Azores
;
eastern
South
Atlantic
: Saint Helena, South Africa;
western
North
Atlantic
:
North
Carolina
, Gulf of
Mexico
;
western Indian Ocean
:
South
of
Madagascar
;
western
North
Pacific
:
South
China
Sea
,
South
Japan
,
North
of the
Philippines
(
Heegaard 1966
;
Morgan
et al.
1985
;
Franks & Flowers 2008
;
Bracken-Grissom
et al.
2012
).
FIGURE 1.
Map of the study area in the western tropical Atlantic showing St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago (SPSP) (blue circle), Rocas Atoll (RA) (green circle) and Fernando de Noronha Archipelago (FN) (red circle). Black dots: sampling stations, with station numbers where the larval forms
Cerataspis
monstrosa
and
Amphionides reynaudii
where collected.
FIGURE 2.
Mysis-stage of
Cerataspis
monstrosa
(Gray, 1828)
larval form, sampled off Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil. Mysis II. Lateral view; Scale bar = 1 mm.
Geographic distribution (adult form, as
Plesiopenaeus armatus
).
eastern
North
Atlantic: Azores, Madeira, Canaries
, Cape Verde;
Central North
Atlantic: Mid Atlantic Ridge
;
western North Atlantic
: Gulf of
Mexico
;
western South Atlantic
:
Brazil
from
Bahia
and
Espírito Santo
states
,
Argentina
;
eastern Indian Ocean
:
Bay of Bengal
;
central Indian Ocean
:
Maldives
;
western Indian Ocean
: Zanzibar, Madagascar;
western
North
Pacific Ocean:
Japan
,
Philippines
;
Central North
Pacific
:
Hawaii
;
Central South
Pacific
: Wallis and Futuna Islands, Tuamotu;
western
South
Pacific: Northeast of
Australia
(
Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997
; D'Incao 1998;
Dall 2001
;
Tavares & Serejo 2007
;
Cardoso
et al
. 2014
).
New record (larval form)
. Fernando de Noronha Archipelago.
Remarks.
The only specimen in this study was caught with a bongo net (300 µm) off FN island during daylight. This is the first record of this larva in the oceanic waters of the south-western tropical Atlantic. The Mysis II found in the present study has
12.43 mm
total length (TL);
5.85 mm
carapace length (CL) (
Table 1
) and a rostrum of
2.36 mm
length; whereas the Mysis II in
Heegaard (1966)
showed TL=
12 mm
, CL =
5 mm
and rostrum=
2 mm
. The specimen in this study is very similar, in morphology and dimensions, to the specimens described in
Heegaard (1966)
.