Caprella penantis Leach 1814
Description
Caprella penantis (Leach, 1814)
Material examined: CNCR20393; number of specimens: 2; CV station; collection date: 01/08/98.
Typelocality: Devonshire coast, England.
Distribution: This species has been reported in British Islands, France, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, from Nova Scotia to Georgia, Gulf of Mexico (Caine, 1983; McCain, 1968; Duffy, 1990), Brazil (Mittman & Müeller, 1998), California, Hawaii, Japan, Australia and New Zealand (McCain, 1968; Masakazu, 1999).
Range extension: Caprella penantis has previously only been reported from Texas and Florida in the Gulf of Mexico (McCain, 1968; Caine, 1983). The record for this species at CV inlet extends its range within the Gulf to Veracruz State, Mexico.
Remarks: This species occurs in horny corals, lagoonestuarine systems, sandy beaches, Sargasssum beds and epiphytic hydroids (Masakazu, 1999). They feed by scraping on large algae which have filamentous or long thalli (Takeuchi & Hirano, 1996).
The salinity and temperature measured at the collection site in this study were 19 to 27 %o and 28 to 29 °C, respectively.
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Published as part of Cházaro-Olvera, Sergio, Winfield, Ignacio, Ortiz, Manuel & Álvarez, Fernando, 2002, Peracarid crustaceans from three inlets in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico: new records and range extensions, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 123 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155951Files
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.155951 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Caprellidae
- Genus
- Caprella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Leach
- Species
- penantis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caprella penantis Leach, 1814 sec. Cházaro-Olvera, Winfield, Ortiz & Álvarez, 2002
References
- Caine, E. A. (1983) Community interactions of Caprella penantis Leach (Crustacea: Amphipoda) on sea whips. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 3 (4), 497 - 504.
- McCain; J. C. (1968) The Caprellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Western North Atlantic. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 278, 1 - 147.
- Duffy, J. E. (1990) Amphipods on seaweeds: Partners or pests? Oecologia, 83 (2), 267 - 276.
- Mittman, J. & Mueller, Y. M. R. (1998) Contribution to the knowledge of Caprella penantis (Leach) biology (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Anhatomirim Island, Santa Catarina. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15 (1), 95 - 100.
- Masakazu, A. (1999) Morphological characteristics of young, maternal care behavior and microhabitat use by caprellid amphipods. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 79 (4), 629 - 638.
- Takeuchi, I. & Hirano, R. (1996) Clinging behavior of the epifaunal caprellids (Amphipoda) inhabiting the Sargassum zone on the Pacific coast of Japan, with its evolutionary implications. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 15 (3), 481 - 492.