New records of deep-sea prawn of the genus Gennadas Spence Bate, 1881 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Benthesicymidae) from Southwestern Atlantic
Author
Alves-Júnior, Flavio De Almeida
Author
Lemos, Rachel De Jesus Feio De
Author
Cardoso, Irene Azevedo
Author
Araújo, Marina De Sá Leitão Câmara De
Author
Bertrand, Arnaud
Author
Souza-Filho, Jesser F.
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-07-25
4450
3
376
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.4
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Gennadas talismani
Bouvier, 1906
(
Figure 5 A‒B
)
Gennadas talismani
Bouvier, 1906
: 749
.—
Lenz & Strunk 1914
: 311
–313, plate XVIII fig. 1–14.—
Crosnier & Forest 1969
: 549
.—
Kensley 1971
: 289
, 290, fig. 11; 1972, fig. 4j, 6d.
Material
examined
.
1 Male
(CL,
6.79 mm
),
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
, project-Mar
Eco
34829,
Superstation
3, serial 1013,
04°16’42’’S
,
12°22’39’’W
,
3093 m
,
MNRJ 22573
.
ST47,
1 Male
(CL,
3.3 mm
),
Fernando de Noronha Archipelago
,
4°25'5''S
,
32°57'51''W
,
505 m
,
30 April 2017
,
MOUFPE 18743
.
ST56C, Seamounts-
Ceará
Chain,
2 Males
(CL,
3.2 mm
,
3.3 mm
),
3°58'46''S
,
35°23'2''W
,
260 m
, 0
4 May 2017
,
MOUFPE 18698
.
Diagnosis
. Carapace thin. Antennal and infra-antennal angles acute. Thelycum with shield on 8th sternite notched anteriorly and posteriorly, 7th sternite with broad rectangular plate, anterior ridge marking position of seminal receptacles. Petasma with internal lobe rounded, external lobe forming 2 low apically acute lobules, small hooks in posterior region; median lobe bipartite, outer lobule broad, inner lobule slender. Interior lobe rounded and accessory lobe a broad flap.
Distribution
. Western Atlantic: Gulf of
Mexico
,
Brazil
(Seamounts of
Ceará
Chain and Fernando de Noronha Archipelago)
(
Figure 2
). Eastern Atlantic:
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
(
Walvis Ridge
),
Cape
Verde
,
Gabon
,
Angola
,
South Africa
(
Crosnier & Forest 1969
;
Kenley 1971
;
Kensley
et al
. 1987
).
Bathymetric Distribution
.
100‒4000 m
depth (
Kensley 1971
;
Kensley
et al
. 1987
).
Remarks
.
Crosnier & Forest (1969)
observed a small branchiostegal spine followed by a carina running toward posterior margin of carapace, lacking in our specimens, this characteristics may be presented as a little variation between specimens collected in South Atlantic waters. According to
Kensley (1971)
, the species closest to
G. talismani
is
G. valens
(
Smith, 1884
)
. They can be distinguished as follows: 7th sternite of thelycum of
G. talismani
with broad, rectangular plate, anterior ridge marking position of seminal receptacles while in
G. valens
this structure is sternite of thelycum of
G
.
talismani
present the inter lobe of the median lobule slender, while in
G
.
valens
the inter lobe is robust.
Gennadas talismani
is endemic to the Atlantic Ocean (
Kensley
et al
. 1987
), but it is recorded for the first time in the southwestern Atlantic.