Alvinocaris muricola Williams 1988
Creators
- 1. Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955 - 2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260 - 8682 Japan; komai @ chiba-muse. or. jp Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, U. S. A. Biology Department, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, U. S. A.
Description
Alvinocaris muricola Williams, 1988 (Fig. 7)
Restricted synonymy.
Alvinocaris muricola Williams, 1988: 268, figs 3, 4, 7; Komai & Segonzac, 2005: 1132, figs 2, 3, 8–14, 29.
Material examined. LACM CR 2001 034.2, 1 female (CL 12.6 mm), ODP site 996, Blake Ridge Diapir, 32°28.135'N, 76°11.486'W, 2167 m, DSV Alvin dive 3910, slurp gun, 27 July 2003.
Distribution. Florida Escarpment in the Gulf of Mexico, 3277 m (Williams, 1988); Barbados Accretionary prism, 1697 m (Komai & Segonzac, 2005); West African equatorial margin, Congo Basin, 3113–3150 m (Komai & Segonzac, 2005); Blake Ridge Diapir, 2155 m (this study).
Remarks. The single female specimen collected from one small outcrop of methane hydrate differs from the specimens here referred to A. methanophila n. sp. in the proportionally longer rostrum (0.67 times of the carapace length), slender second segment of the antennular peduncle (1.96 times longer than wide) and narrower antennal scale (about 2.1 times longer than wide). Based on these features, combined with the notably convex branchiostegal region of the carapace, this female specimen is assigned to A. muricola with little hesitation.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LACM
- Event date
- 2003-07-27
- Family
- Alvinocarididae
- Genus
- Alvinocaris
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- 034.2 , CR 2001
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Williams
- Species
- muricola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2003-07-27
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alvinocaris muricola Williams, 1988 sec. Komai, Shank & Dover, 2005
References
- Williams, A. B. (1988) New marine decapod crustaceans from waters influenced by hydrothermal, discharge, brine and hydrocarbon seepage. Fishery Bulletin, 86, 263 - 287
- Komai, T. & Segonzac, M. (2005). A revision of the genus Alvinocaris Williams and Chace (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species of Alvinocaris. Journal of Natural History, 39, 1111 - 1175.