Deutella californica Mayer 1890
- 1. Laboratorio de Bentos, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Cinvestav, Merida, Mexico;
- 2. Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, España
Description
Deutella californica Mayer, 1890: 27–28, pl. 1, figs 3, 4, pl. 3, figs 15, 16, pl. 5, fig. 18. Dougherty and Steinberg, 1953; Steinberg and Dougherty, 1957: 279–281, figs 15, 21–23, 28. McCain, 1968: 54, fig. 52. McCain and Steinberg, 1970; Laubitz, 1970: 16–18, figs 3, 26. Martin, 1977; Ortiz et al., 2002, fig. 28. Guerra-García, 2003b: 1062, fig. 2. Winfield, Escobar-Briones, et al., 2007: 47, fig. 17.
Type localityCape Mendocino, California.
DistributionNortheastern Pacific (Guerra-García 2003b); Gulf of Mexico (LeCroy et al. 2009).
Records in the Gulf of MexicoMEX: Tamaulipas continental shelf (Escobar-Briones and Winfield 2003); Laguna Madre (Barba and Sánchez 2005); Bay of Campeche at southwest (Winfield, Escobar-Briones, et al. 2007).
HabitatDeutella californica has been reported on seagrasses and hydroids with a mainly predatory feeding mode (Caine 1980); on the hydroid Obelia dichotoma, on the carapace and legs of the sheep crab Loxorhynchus grandis, on algae, bryozoans, compound ascidians, flat fine sand, sandstone, shale bedrock and the tentacular radioles of the polychaete worm Eudistylia polymorpha (Martin 1977; Guerra- García 2003b). The depth range reported is shallow water extending to 25 m (Dougherty and Steinberg 1953; LeCroy et al. 2009).
RemarksAccording to Guerra-García (2003b) the shape of the gnathopod 2 propodus in males is the best characteristic to differentiate this species from among the remaining species of Deutella. It is characterized by having a propodus nearly rectangular, palmar surface with proximal grasping spine, and a medial poison spine separated from the distal portion by a deep cleft; the palmar and distal portion of the propodus bear long hair-like setae (Laubitz 1970).
There was one record for D. californica in the Gulf of Mexico (Port Aransas, Texas) by Steinberg and Dougherty (1957), however it was considered doubtful by McCain (1968) and Laubitz (1970). Subsequently, the species was not reported for a long time (46 years) in the Gulf of Mexico. To date this species has only been recorded in the southern region of the Gulf basin. Unfortunately no specimens of this species could be located for comparative purposes. The record in Escobar- Briones and Winfield (2003) is based on one unsexed specimen without illustrations from a bachelor’ s degree thesis (Borja 1998 cited in Escobar-Briones and Winfield 2003) and the current deposition of this specimen is unknown. Likewise, the deposition of specimens in Barba and Sánchez (2005) is unknown (E Barba, pers. comm.). Finally, the first author has inquired in the CNCR (the place where the material of Winfield, Escobar-Briones, et al. 2007 is housed), but there are no voucher specimens of this species deposited there.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Caprellidae
- Genus
- Deutella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Mayer
- Species
- californica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Deutella californica Mayer, 1890 sec. Paz-Ríos, Guerra-García & Ardisson, 2014
References
- Mayer P. 1890. Die Caprelliden des Golfes von Neapel under angrenenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Nachtrag zur Monographie derselben. Fauna Flora Golfe Neapel. 17: 1 - 157.
- Dougherty EC, Steinberg JE. 1953. Notes on the skeleton shrimps (Crustacea, Caprellidea) of California. Proc Biol Soc Wash. 66: 39 - 50.
- Steinberg JE, Dougherty EC. 1957. The skeleton shrimps (Crustacea: Caprellidae) of the Gulf of Mexico. Tulane Stud Zool. 5: 267 - 288.
- McCain JC. 1968. The Capreillidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the Western North Atlantic. Bull US Natl Mus. 278: 1 - 147.
- McCain JC, Steinberg JE. 1970. Amphipoda I, Caprellidea I, Fam. Caprellidae. Crustaceorum Catalogus. 2: 1 - 78.
- Laubitz DR. 1970. Studies on the Caprellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the American North Pacific. Publ Biol Oceanogr. 1: 1 - 89.
- Martin DM. 1977. A survey of the family Caprellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from selected sites along the northern California coast. Bull South Calif Acad Sci. 76: 146 - 167.
- Ortiz M, Alvarez F, Winfield I. 2002. Caprellid amphipods (Amphipoda: Caprellidea): illustrated key for the genera and species from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Ciudad de Mexico (MX): Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
- Guerra-Garcia JM. 2003 b. Revision of the genus Deutella (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidea) with description of a new species, redescription of Deutella venenosa Mayer, 1890 and a key to the species of Deutella. J Nat Hist. 37: 1059 - 1084.
- LeCroy S, Gasca R, Winfield I, Ortiz M, Escobar-Briones E. 2009. Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder DL, Camp DK, editors. Gulf of Mexico origins, waters and biota, vol. I, Biodiversity. Corpus Christi (TX): Texas AandM University Press; p. 941 - 972.
- Escobar-Briones E, Winfield I. 2003. Checklist of the benthic Gammaridean and Caprellidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from the Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf and Slope. Belg J Zool. 133: 37 - 44.
- Barba E, Sanchez AJ. 2005. Peracarid crustaceans of Central Laguna Madre Tamaulipas in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Mex Sci. 23: 241 - 247.
- Caine EA. 1980. Ecology of two littoral species of caprellid amphipods (Crustacea) from Washington, USA. Mar Biol. 56: 327 - 335.