On a small collection of mysids (Crustacea, Peracarida, Mysida) from the southern Gulf of California, western Mexico, with the description of new species of Mysidium and Cubanomysis
Author
Hendrickx, Michel E.
Author
Hernández-Payán, José Carlos
0000-0003-1483-1289
Postgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1483 - 1289
Author
Gómez-Gutierrez, Jaime
Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, La Paz, Baja California Sur 23000, Mexico.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-10-26
5360
2
194
218
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5360.2.2/52113
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5360.2.2
1175-5326
10145567
48554152-4466-4ED7-A50F-4464A1722FE7
Metamysidopsis frankfiersi
Hendrickx & Hernández-Payán, 2023
Metamysidopsis frankfiersi
Hendrickx & Hernández-Payán, 2023: 432‒444
, figs. 4‒10.
Material examined.
One male
(CL
1.33 mm
, TL
3.72 mm
),
April 18, 2016
,
Los Morros
(
23°27’N
,
109°25’W
),
Cabo Pulmo National Park
,
Southern
Baja California
,
Mexico
, about
5 m
deep (ICML-EMU-13274
Remarks.
Metam
ysidopsis W.M.
Tattersall, 1951
, is a small genus containing nine species (one with two subspecies) (
Mees & Meland 2012
onwards). Two of these have been currently reported for the eastern Pacific:
M. elongata elongata
(Holmes, 1900)
and
M. pacifica
(Zimmer, 1918)
.
Hendrickx & Hernández-Payán (2023)
suggest that the two subspecies of
elongata
,
M. e.
elongata
and
M. e. atlantica
Băcescu, 1968
, reported in shallow waters on both sides of the American continent, should be lifted from subspecies to species based on clear geographic separation and morphological differences summarized by
Băcescu (1969)
. The same authors (
Hendrickx & Hernández-Payán 2023
) described a new species of
Metamysidopsis
also collected during the present survey,
Metamysidopsis frankfiersi
, currently know only from the southern Gulf of California,
Mexico
.