Description of two new species of the Corophiidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea) and register of Laticorophium baconi (Shoemaker, 1934) from Brazilian waters
Author
Valério-Berardo, Maria Teresa
Author
Souza, Ana Maria Thiago De
text
Zootaxa
2009
2215
55
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.189937
83d33b93-cdbb-4784-b902-d8c718bb1dc5
1175-5326
189937
Monocorophium acherusicum
(Costa, 1851)
Figure 5
Material Examined:
1 male
3.5 mm
,
23º53’ S
e
46º 11’ W
, intertidal, col. Umbuzeiro, G.,
28/11/2008
,
MZUSP
19617.
Diagnosis
: Rostrum of male minute, deeply recessed to lateral head lobes. Male antenna 1 peduncular article 1 with 1 distal robust seta on ventromedial margin. Female antenna 1 peduncular aticle 1 with 3–4 robust setae on dorsomedial margin and 4–5 robust setae on ventral margin. Male antenna 2 strongly pediform; peduncle article 4 with 1 long and 2 short acute process on vetrodistal corner, peduncle article 5 with distal process on ventral margin; flagellum short weakly setose. Female antenna 2 articles 3–5 with robust setae on ventromedial margin. Male gnathopod 2 dactylus with 2 teeth on flexor margin, unequal in length. Male pereopod 7 basis medium broad. Urosome segments fused. Uropod 1, peduncle with 2–4 robust setae on medial margin; uropod 2 rami with robust setae on apical margins; uropod 3 ramus rounded apically.
Remarks:
Monocorophium acherusicum
has cosmopolitan distribution and it is perhaps the most widely distributed species of corophiin amphipod in temperate-tropical waters of the world (
Bousfield & Hoover, 1997
). This species was recorded form Brazilian waters for
Serejo, 1998
, that appointed some variations on numbers of robust setae of antennae peduncle, comparing the Brazilian specimens with descriptions of
Chevreux & Fage, 1925
;
Bousfield, 1973
and
Myers, 1982
. But this species is distinguished from the others of the genus by rostrum deeply recessed, gnathopod 2 with 2 teeth on flexor margin and uropod 1 peduncle with 2–4 robust setae on both medial margins.