Species of Scina Prestandrea, 1833 (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea, Scinidae) from western Mexico with the description of a new species from the Gulf of California
Author
Gasca, Rebeca
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Av. del Centenario Km. 5.5, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 77014, Mexico.
Author
Hendrickx, Michel E.
Laboratorio de Invertebrados Bentónicos, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, PO Box 811, Mazatlán, 82000 Sinaloa, Mexico.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-06-26
4803
2
329
344
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.5
1175-5326
3909163
F91C0D6F-E2A1-4363-B39A-828D1F9C8D14
Scina submarginata
Tattersall, 1906
Scina submarginata
Tattersall, 1906: 12
; Siegel-Causey, 1992: 98;
Vinogradov et al., 1996: 184
, fig. 72;
Brusca & Hendrickx, 2005: 148
(list);
García-Madrigal, 2007: 139
(list);
Zeidler & de Broyer, 2009: 24
(list) (complete synonymy).
Material examined
.
TALUD XII
, St. 15C (
17°27’51”N
,
102°10’43”W
),
March 31, 2008
, 2F
,
MN
from surface to
1530 m
(
TD
,
1880 m
)
(ICML-EMU-12465).
Eastern and worldwide Pacific distribution
. From the Bering Sea to Isla Santa Catalina, southern Gulf of California (
Brusca & Hendrickx 2005
; García Madrigal 2007). Off SW Mexico (present study;
Fig. 4
). This widely distributed species (
type
locality off
Ireland
, East Atlantic) occurs in the West Pacific, the Central Atlantic, and in the central part of the Indian Ocean (
Zeidler & de Broyer 2009
).
Remarks
.
Scina submarginata
is known to occur at depths between 200 and
4000 m
. It is relatively easy to distinguish by features such as the distal extension of propodus in pereopod 1, but not in pereopod 2 (like in
S. marginata
), and the basis of pereopod 5 with long anterodistal projection. The sizes of the two examined females were 4.5 and 5.8 mm.