Cirripedia Thoracica (Crustacea) collected during the “ Campagne de La Calypso (1961 - 1962) ” from the Atlantic shelf of South America
Author
Young, Paulo S.
Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil) psyoung @ acd. ufrj. br
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Zoosystema
2000
22
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5395280
1638-9387
5395280
6D2F4BB8-4A20-43A3-BDCD-C3877304A6C7
Acasta cyathus
Darwin, 1854
Acasta cyathus
Darwin, 1854: 312
, pl. 9, fig. 3A-C. – Pilsbry 1916: 244, figs 79, 80, pl. 57, figs 1-3.
MATERIAL EXAMINED
. —
La Calypso,
stn
22, 33 m
,
1 specimen
rc
10mm
(
MNHN
Ci2725). — Stn
46, 32 m
,
17 specimens
rc
3-9mm
(
MNHN
Ci2726). — Stn
69, 39 m
,
1 specimen
rc
6 mm
(
MNHN
Ci2756).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED
. —
Pernambuco
, Porto de Galinhas.
Rasinho do Coiceiro,
2 specimens
rc
7-8 mm
(
MNRJ
5471). — Taçaíba,>
100 specimens
rc
4-8 mm
(
MNRJ
5462).
Bahia
.
Itacaré, Cachimbo,>
50 specimens
rc
2-10 mm
(
MNRJ
4230). — Itacaré, Ribeira Beach,>
50 specimens
rc
4-7 mm
, (
MNRJ
4007, 4224). — Abrolhos, Paredes reef,
13 specimens
rc
6-12 mm
(
MNRJ
4226).
REMARKS
Acasta cyathus
is a common species found associated with several species of sponges along all the tropical oceans. Young (1995) recorded this species as ranging to
18°S
from
Brazil
. The new samples show a wide tropical South Atlantic distribution of this species from
8°S
to
18°S
. It is presently the only species of
Acasta
found along the Brazilian coast.