The Lampropidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of the World
Author
Gerken, Sarah
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-01
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Alamprops quadriplicatus
(
Smith
, 1879
)
n. comb.
Lamprops quadriplicatus
Smith
, 1879: 118–120
.
Type material.
Syntypes
: in part, in
USNM
: 10499, ovigerous female; 34874, subadult female; 34884,
2 subadult
females; 34885, subadult male; 36639, subadult male; 44132, preparatory female; 44133, preparatory male.
Gloucester Harbor
,
Grand Banks
,
Cape
Cod Bay
,
Casco Bay
.
Diagnosis.
Carapace with 4 lateral ridges; eyelobe not extending to anterior border of pseudorostrum. Telson with 2 pairs of lateral setae, 5 terminal setae, central seta and outermost pair subequal. Uropod peduncle with 7 medial setae; uropod exopod article 1 0.9 length of article 2.
Male
with long antennal flagellum.
Depth
.
4–104 m
.
Distribution
. Western boreal Atlantic.
Remarks
. This species has been problematic. The original description by Smith is from the western North Atlantic, but several subspecies have been ascribed to this species from the North Pacific, specifically
krasheninnikovi
from the boreal North Pacific,
longispina
from Peter the Great Bay and
Hokkaido
,
Japan
, as well as
quadriplicatus
from the Pacific coast of
Canada
(
Derzhavin 1926
;
Hart 1930
; Zimmer 1943). Given the limited dispersal capabilities of cumaceans, and the genetic differentiation that has been described between very close populations in
South Africa
(
Teske 2006
), it is unlikely that all of these records represent a single species. As the subspecies are morphologically distinguishable from
quadriplicatus
,
they were returned (
krasheninnikovi
) or elevated (
longispinus
) to the rank of species. Based on color differences,
Zimmer (1980)
suggested that Hart’s “
L. quadriplicatus
”
is unlikely to be the same species found on the western North Atlantic coasts of
Canada
and the
United States
. It is possible that Hart’s
quadriplicatus
is what was described as
A. augustinensis
(
Gerken, 2005
)
.