Caprella equilibra Say 1818
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Caprella equilibra Say, 1818
Caprella equilibra Say, 1818: p. 391; McCain, 1968: p. 25, fig. 12–13; McCain & Steinberg 1970, p. 19; Cavedini, 1982: p. 500; Krapp-Schickel, 1993: p. 782–783, fig. 533; Guerra-García & Thiel, 2001: 878–879, fig. 6; Caprella monacantha Heller, 1866, p. 54, pl. 4, fig. 17–19; Caprella aequilibra Mayer, 1882, p. 45, pl. 1, fig. 7; pl. 2, fig. 1–11; pl. 4, fig. 20–25; pl. 5, fig. 16–18; Mayer, 1890, p. 48, pl. 2, fig. 42–43; pl. 4, fig. 35–37; pl. 6, fig. 18a, 37; Mayer, 1903, p. 89, pl. 3, fig. 29–34; pl. 7, fig. 66–69; Chevreux & Fage, 1925, p. 455, fig. 433; Fiorencis, 1940, pl. 13, fig. 3–4; pl. 1, fig. 3–4,7
Material. — Italy, Lagoon of Venice, Malamocco (45°25'N, 12°23' O). From brown algae on benches of Mytilus galloprovincialis. 0–2m. 21.04.04; 8 males, 13 juveniles and approx. 135 ready-to-hatch juveniles. María Fernanda Montoya leg. The collected material is deposited at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (ZSM), numbers A 20061408 -A 20061434.
General diagnosis. With swimming setae on A2. Basis of Gn2 less than half as long as Pr2. With prominent ventral spine on Pr2 between the insertion sites of Gn2. Pr1, 2 lengthened in males (McCain, 1968) (Fig. 7).
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZSM
- Family
- Caprellidae
- Genus
- Caprella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Say
- Species
- equilibra
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caprella equilibra Say, 1818 sec. Lang, Krapp & Melzer, 2007
References
- McCain, J. C. (1968) The Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the Western North Atlantic. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 278, 1 - 116.
- Krapp-Schickel, T. (1993) Suborder Caprellidea. In: Ruffo, S. (Ed.), The Amphipoda of the Mediterranean. Memoires de l'Institut Oceanographique de Monaco, 13, pp. 773 - 809.
- Mayer, P. (1882) Die Caprelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, 6, 1 - 201.
- Fiorencis, A. (1940) I Caprellidi del mare adriatico presso Rovigno. Thalassia, 4, 1 - 34.