Caribboecetes progreso, a new species of sand-dwelling amphipod (Amphipoda: Corophiidea: Ischyroceridae) from the Gulf of Mexico, with a key for the genus
Author
Paz-Ríos, Carlos E.
Author
Ardisson, Pedro-Luis
text
Zootaxa
2013
3652
3
370
380
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3652.3.5
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1175-5326
217037
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Key to species of
Caribboecetes
(modified from Just 1984)
1 Basis of gnathopod 2 with strongly triangular upward anterolateral flange......................................... 2
- Basis of gnathopod 2 without strongly triangular upward anterolateral flange...................................... 3
2 Rostrum not reaching beyond eyelobes; cephalon and first 4–5 pereonites dorsally with transverse rows of densely polyflagel- late setules; coxal plate and basis of pereopod 7 with densely setose lateral surface.................
C. progreso
sp. nov.
- Rostrum reaching beyond eyelobes; cephalon and pereon with a few scattered simple setules; coxal plate 7 and basis of pereo- pod 7 with smooth lateral surface....................................................................
C. justi
3 Cephalon and first 3–5 pereonites with transverse rows of setules dorsally......................................... 4
- Cephalon and pereon at most with scattered dorsal setules..................................................... 5
4 Eyelobes with apical projection; peduncular article 5 and flagellar article 1 of antenna 2 with dorsolateral setae in a single dis- tinct row; coxal plate and basis of pereopod 7 with densely setose lateral surface........................
C. jenikarpae
- Eyelobes apically rounded; dorsolateral setae on peduncular article 5 of antenna 2 not in a single row; coxal plate 7 and basis of pereopod 7 with smooth lateral surface.......................................................
C. barbadensis
5 Rostrum curved strongly downward; article 1 of antenna 1 with broad, marginally setose lateral “wing”......
C. pterycornis
- Rostrum straight; article 1 of antenna 1 normal...................................................
C. intermedius