Parasites (Isopoda: Epicaridea and Nematoda) from ghost and mud shrimp (Decapoda: Axiidea and Gebiidea) with descriptions of a new genus and a new species of bopyrid isopod and clarification of Pseudione Kossmann, 1881
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Boyko, Christopher B.
Author
Williams, Jason D.
Author
Shields, Jeffrey D.
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-12-19
4365
3
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journal article
31134
10.11646/zootaxa.4365.3.1
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Robinione overstreeti
(
Adkison & Heard, 1995
) n. comb.
Figs 9
,
10
Pseudioniinae [
sic
] sp. A.
Rakocinski
et al
., 1993
: 102 (list).
Pseudione overstreeti
Adkison &
Heard
, 1995
: 105
–109, figs. 1, 2 (
type
locality: west end of Horn Island,
Mississippi
,
U.S.
A, infesting
Callichirus islagrande
(Schmitt, 1935))
.—
Rakocinski
et al
., 1996
: 351
(list).—
Camp, 1998
: 134
(list).—
Schotte
et al
., 2009
: 980
(list).—
Vogt, 2016
: 1409
, 1410 (mention), fig. 7A (color photo of male and female).
Material examined
.
United States:
Immature female (
5.5 mm
),
ex
right branchial chamber of female
Callichirus islagrande
(
10.9 mm
CL), Gulf Beach, Isle Dernière, Louisiana, coll. R. B. Griffis & T. Zimmerman,
27 Jul 1993
(ULLZ 10206); immature female (
5.5 mm
, on SEM stub, USNM 1459847
ex
ULLZ 10205), mature male (3.0 mm),
ex
right branchial chamber of female
C
.
islagrande
(8.0 mm CL), mid-intertidal pool and low intertidal, bay side, Isle Dernièrs, Louisiana, coll. R. B. Griffis, D. L. Felder & T. McTigue,
19 Oct 1993
(ULLZ 10205); ovigerous female (11.0 mm), mature male (4.0 mm),
ex
left branchial chamber of female
C
.
islagrande
(
11.4 mm
CL), Gulf side, Isle Dernièrs, Louisiana, coll. D. L. Felder, P. Klerks & D. Griffis,
22 Jan 1995
(ULLZ 10207); immature female (11.0 mm), mature male (4.0 mm),
ex
left branchial chamber of female
C
.
islagrande
(
10.8 mm
CL), Gulf side of beach, Isla Dernièrs, Louisiana, coll. R. B. Griffis & T. Zimmerman,
27 Jul 1993
(ULLZ 10199); female (11.0 mm),
ex
left branchial chamber female
C
.
islagrande
(
10.1 mm
CL), Gulf side of beach, Isle Dernièrs, Louisiana, coll. R. B. Griffis, D. L. Felder & T. McTigue,
19 Oct 1993
(ULLZ 10209); immature female (3.0 mm),
ex
left branchial chamber of immature
C
.
islagrande
(5.0 mm CL), immature female (
3.7 mm
), mature male (
2.3 mm
, on SEM stub, USNM 1459848
ex
ULLZ 10198),
ex
left branchial chamber of immature
C
.
islagrande
(5.0 mm CL), immature female (
3.5 mm
), mature male (2.0 mm),
ex
right branchial chamber of female
C
.
islagrande
(
6.5 mm
CL), immature female (
3.5 mm
), mature male (
2.2 mm
, on SEM stub, USNM 145 9848
ex
ULLZ 10198),
ex
right branchial chamber of female
C
.
islagrande
(5.0 mm CL), access road #3, near Fish Pass, low tide, morning, Mustang Island, Texas, coll. D. L. Felder & L. Bilodeau,
1
Mar 2000
(ULLZ 10198); ovigerous female (12.0 mm), mature male (
4.5 mm
),
ex
C
.
islagrande
(host not in vial with parasites), Gulf side, Isle Dernièrs, Louisiana, coll. D. L. Felder & R. B. Griffis,
24 Jul 1992
(ULLZ 10210); ovigerous female (11.0 mm), mature male (
4.5 mm
),
ex
left branchial chamber of female
C
.
santarosaensis
Sakai and Türkay, 2012
(
11.4 mm
CL), bay side, Isle Dernièrs, Louisiana, coll. A. Christian, D. Badgwill, R. B. Griffis & I. A. Griffis,
22 Jan 1993
(ULLZ 10204).
FIGURE 9.
Scanning electron micrographs of
Robinione overstreeti
(Adkison & Heard, 1995),
n. comb
., mature female (ex
Callichirus islagrande
(Schmitt, 1935)
, ULLZ 10205). A, ventral overview of female; B, ventral view of head, left side, showing antennule (A1), antenna (A2), mouth (m), maxilliped palp (Mxp), and pereopod 1 (Pe); C, right pereopod 3, arrowhead indicates basis with dorsal mass; D, left pereopods 5–7 (left to right), arrowhead indicates basis with dorsal mass on pereopod 5; E, scales of basis of right pereopod 3; F, scales of carpus of right pereopod 3. Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B, C = 100 µm; D = 250 µm; E, F = 10 µm.
FIGURE 10.
Scanning electron micrographs of
Robinione overstreeti
(Adkison & Heard, 1995),
n. comb
., mature male (ex
Callichirus islagrande
(Schmitt, 1935)
, ULLZ 10198). A, ventral overview of male; B, ventral view of head, left side, showing antennule, antenna, mouth, and pereopod 1; C, left pereopods 6 and 7 (top and bottom, respectively); D, ventral view of pleon, showing pleopods with rounded medial lobes (noted on third and fourth pleopods by asterisks). Scale bars: A = 500 µm; B, C = 100 µm; D = 200 µm.
Distribution
. Gulf of
Mexico
from west coast of
Florida
to
Texas
,
U.S.A.
, and
Tabasco
,
Mexico
.
Hosts
.
Callichirus islagrande
(Schmitt, 1935)
(type species) and
C
.
santarosaensis
Sakai & Türkay, 2012
.
Remarks.
The present material of
R. overstreeti
n. comb
.
(
Figs. 9
,
10
) matches that of
Adkison &
Heard
(1995)
, who provided a detailed description of the species. Although they did not show the ventral view of the male,
Adkison &
Heard
(1995)
indicated that the pleopods were “vestigial or absent, represented by low mounds mesal to lateral processes of pleomeres” as we found in our samples (
Fig. 10D
). The male pleomeres documented in
Adkison &
Heard
(1995;
Fig. 2A
)
are slightly more elongate and acute than in the present specimens, but this variation is typical for pleopodal morphology in bopyrids. Each male pereopod of
R. overstreeti
n. comb
.
has a recurved dactylus, the distal end of which touches the base of the propodus and is surrounded by a low ridge of tooth-like projections (
Fig. 10B, C
). The female
R. overstreeti
n. comb
.
examined with SEM (
Fig. 9
) is not fully mature, thus has reduced oostegites and, proportionally, somewhat longer and thinner pleopods and uropods than the
holotype
(
Adkison &
Heard
, 1995;
Fig. 1B
). Female and male antennae (
Figs. 9B
,
10B
) have the same numbers of articles as in the original description (3 and 4 for females; 3 and 5 for males). Female
R. overstreeti
n. comb
.
have pereopods with elongate carpi and a large irregular, infolded mass on the dorsal surface of each of the bases (
Fig. 9C, D
), all pereopodal segments covered with scales (
Fig. 9C–F
).
Felder & Dworschak (2015)
discussed in detail the nomenclatural issues surrounding the name
C
.
santarosaensis
, which is now used for Gulf of
Mexico
populations of the
Callichirus
species formerly called
C
.
major
(Say, 1818)
, but which is distinct from that Atlantic coastal species. This is the first record of “
Pseudione
”
overstreeti
from
C
.
santarosaensis
(either under that name or as
C
.
major
).
Adkison &
Heard
(1995)
examined several hundred
C
.
santarosaensis
(as
C
.
major
) and found no bopyrids on them; it is not clear where their specimens were collected from, but based on the material examined list for
P
.
overstreeti
, they probably came from
Alabama
or
Mississippi
.