Recent Ostracoda (Arthropoda, Crustacea) from São Pedro-São Paulo Archipelago, Brazil: a preliminary approach
Author
Antonietto, Lucas Silveira
Institute of Geosciences, University of Brasilia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Brasilia, Brazil, ZIP: 70.910 - 900.
Author
Machado, Cláudia Pinto
Centro de Ciências Exatas da Natureza e de Tecnologia, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, ZIP: 95.700 - 000. E-mail: machadocpm @ gmail. com
Author
Carmo, Dermeval Aparecido Do
Institute of Geosciences, University of Brasilia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Brasilia, Brazil, ZIP: 70.910 - 900. E-mail: derme @ unb. br Institute of Geosciences, University of Brasilia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, Brasilia, Brazil, ZIP: 70.910 - 900. E-mail: jwfundsd @ unb. br
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Rosa, José Wilson Correa
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3335.1.2
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10.11646/zootaxa.3335.1.2
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Keijcyoidea praecipua
(
Bold, 1963
)
emend.
Fig. 4
:1–15
1963
Cytherelloidea praecipua
Bold
, p. 75, pl. 1, figs. 1−7.
1967
Cytherelloidea praecipua
Bold. Hullings
, p. 655, figs. 4:p, 7:n.
1971
Cytherelloidea praecipua
Bold. Allison & Holden
, p. 209, fig. 31.
1974
Cytherelloidea praecipua
Bold. Swain & Gilby
, p. 277, pl. 1, figs. 5−6, text fig. 6c.
1975
Cytherelloidea praecipua
Bold. Teeter
, p. 490, fig.
23m
.
1978 [
non
]
Cytherelloidea
sp.
cf.
C. praecipua
Bold. Khosla
, p. 257, pl. 1, fig. 7.
1981
Cytherelloidea
sp.
aff.
C. praecipua
Bold. Bate
et al.
, p. 4, fig. 2:A.
1985 [
non
]
Cytherelloidea
aff.
praecipua
Bold. Carreño
, p. 142, pl. 3, figs. 6−7.
1992
Keijcyoidea praecipua
(Bold)
. Coimbra
et al.
, p. 96, pl. 3, fig. 10.
2006 [
non
]
Keijcyoidea praecipua
(Bold)
. Hussain
et al.
, p. 1663, fig. 6:7.
?2008
Keijcyoidea praecipua
(Bold)
. Gopalakrishna
et al.
, p. 301.
Original diagnosis.
A species of
Cytherelloidea
with reticulate carapace and longitudinal ridges, characterized by a strong tooth that is situated on the dorsal margin of the left valve and fits into a socket in the dorsal margin of the right valve (
Bold 1963
).
Emended diagnosis.
Carapace with rounded alveoli along the anterior end and ventral margin of the left valve in the adult stage. Lateral surface reticulated in the intra-ridge regions and partly over the ridges, and finely punctated at the central and centroventral areas. Pronounced sexual dimorphism: females larger than males; ventral margin straight in females and concave in males; in dorsal view, greatest width posterior in females and posteromedian in males.
Holotype
.
HVH no. 6833 (
Bold 1963
).
Type locality.
Pigeon Point,
Tobago
, calcareous sands (
Bold 1963
).
Material.
71 specimens
(MP-612, MP-747 and MP-748).
Figured specimens.
CP-436, CP-441 and CP-548 (carapaces); CP-437, CP-438, CP-439, CP-440, CP-441, CP-442, CP-443, CP-445 (valves) (
Tab. 1
).
Geographic and stratigraphic distribution.
Pigeon Point,
Trinidad and Tobago
(
Bold 1963
);
Clipperton Island
, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Overseas
France
(
Allison & Holden 1971
); San Juan del Sur,
Nicaragua
(
Swain & Gilby 1974
);
South Stann Creek
and Tobacco Entrance,
Belize
(
Teeter 1975
); São Pedro-São Paulo Archipelago,
Brazil
, Recent.
Description.
Carapace subretangular in lateral view, with greatest height and length along the median region. Right valve larger, strongly overlapping the left valve along the dorsal and ventral regions and slightly at the anterior end. Dorsal margin concave at the anteromedian portion. Anterior end rounded, with outline ornamented by small denticle-like structures. Posterior end straight, forming an 80–90º cardinal angle with the dorsal margin. Lateral surface reticulated in most of the intra-ridge regions, and partially over the ridges, and punctated in the median and anteromedian areas; in the left valve, also ornamented with a series of rounded to elliptical alveoli along the anterior end and ventral margin. Three ridges present: one extending through the ventromedian region, and the other from the dorsocentral to the dorsoposterior region, where both are connected by a third oblique ridge. Internal view as described for the genus. Pronounced sexual dimorphism: females larger than males; ventral margin nearly straight in females and concave in males; greatest width posterior for females and posteromedian for males.
TABLE 1.
Illustrated material for
Keijcyoidea praecipua
(
Bold, 1963
)
emend.
Material |
Stage |
Length (mm) |
Height (mm) |
Width (mm) |
CP-436 (carapace) |
Adult (♀) |
0,64 |
0,38 |
0,32 |
CP-445 (left valve) |
Adult (♀) |
0,66 |
0,37 |
- |
CP-548 (carapace) |
Adult (♂) |
0,60 |
0,34 |
0,25 |
CP-437 (left valve) |
A-1 |
0,57 |
0,33 |
- |
CP-438 (left valve) |
A-2 |
0,54 |
0,30 |
- |
CP-439 (left valve) |
A-3 |
0,48 |
0,28 |
- |
CP-440 (right valve) |
A-4 |
0,42 |
0,26 |
- |
CP-441 (right valve) |
A-5 |
0,38 |
0,22 |
0,18 |
CP-442 (left valve) |
A-6 |
0,30 |
0,19 |
- |
CP-443 (right valve) |
A-7 |
0,24 |
0,18 |
- |
Remarks.
Generic diagnosis follows
Malz (1981)
, while species diagnosis follows
Bold (1963)
. The original description for
Keijcyoidea praecipua
was based on
six specimens
. According to it, these were: a female carapace (
holotype
), along with three other carapaces,
two females
and
one male
, and
two female
valves (
paratypes
). Despite its separation into genders by the original author, all specimens look very similar. It is believed that all previously described specimens were males, and the true female for the species is the one herein presented for the firsttime. Differences between males and females in
K. praecipua
, therefore, resemble those observed in
K. keiji
(
McKenzie 1967
)
, a morphologically close species (
McKenzie 1967
;
Titterton & Whatley 2006
). Specimens identified as
Cytherelloidea praecipua
in
Allison & Holden (1971)
,
Swain & Gilby (1974)
and
Teeter (1975)
look much like the females described by the present study, despite small differences in size and ornamentation details, and are considered as belonging to the same species. The material studied by
Gopalakrishna et al. (2008)
in the Indian Ocean has not been illustrated; therefore, the authors prefer to keep in doubt the occurrence registered in that work.