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KARUBENTHOS 2012
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| Première partie | 02/05/2012 | 28/05/2012 | |||
| Deuxième partie | 03/12/2012 | 14/12/2012 | |||
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Abdelkrim J., Aznar-cormano L., Fedosov A.E., Kantor Y.I., Lozouet P., Phuong M.A., Zaharias P. & Puillandre N. 2018. Exon-Capture-Based Phylogeny and Diversification of the Venomous Gastropods (Neogastropoda, Conoidea), in Vidal N.(Ed.), Molecular Biology and Evolution 35(10): 2355-2374. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msy144
Abstract [+] [-]Transcriptome-based exon capture methods provide an approach to recover several hundred markers from genomic DNA, allowing for robust phylogenetic estimation at deep timescales. We applied this method to a highly diverse group of venomous marine snails, Conoidea, for which published phylogenetic trees remain mostly unresolved for the deeper nodes. We targeted 850 protein coding genes (678,322 bp) in ca. 120 samples, spanning all (except one) known families of Conoidea and a broad selection of non-Conoidea neogastropods. The capture was successful for most samples, although capture efficiency decreased when DNA libraries were of insufficient quality and/or quantity (dried samples or low starting DNA concentration) and when targeting the most divergent lineages. An average of 75.4% of proteins was recovered, and the resulting tree, reconstructed using both supermatrix (IQ-tree) and supertree (Astral-II, combined with the Weighted Statistical Binning method) approaches, are almost fully supported. A reconstructed fossil-calibrated tree dates the origin of Conoidea to the Lower Cretaceous. We provide descriptions for two new families. The phylogeny revealed in this study provides a robust framework to reinterpret changes in Conoidea anatomy through time. Finally, we used the phylogeny to test the impact of the venom gland and radular type on diversification rates. Our analyses revealed that repeated losses of the venom gland had no effect on diversification rates, while families with a breadth of radula types showed increases in diversification rates, thus suggesting that trophic ecology may have an impact on the evolution of Conoidea.
Accessible surveys cited (23) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, CEAMARC-AA, CONCALIS, Restricted, DongSha 2014, EXBODI, GUYANE 2014, ILES DU SALUT, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MAINBAZA, NORFOLK 2, NanHai 2014, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, Restricted, SALOMONBOA 3, TAIWAN 2013, TERRASSES, Restricted
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Anker A. 2014. Naushonia draconis sp. nov., a heavily armoured mud shrimp from the Caribbean Sea, and taxonomic status of Espeleonaushonia Juarrero & Martínez-Iglesias, 1997 (Decapoda: Gebiidea: Laomediidae). Marine Biology Research 10(8): 755-770. DOI:10.1080/17451000.2013.852684
Abstract [+] [-]The diagnostic characters of the laomediid mud shrimp genus Espeleonaushonia Juarrero & Martínez-Iglesias, 1997 are reassessed and the genus is synonymized with Naushonia Kingsley, 1897. A new species of Naushonia is described based on a single male collected at a depth of 16 m off the coast of Guadeloupe, French Antilles. Naushonia draconis sp. nov. is closest to two species of Naushonia formerly placed in Espeleonaushonia, namely Naushonia palauensis (Alvarez, Villalobos & Iliffe, 2010) comb. nov. and Naushonia augudrea (Juarrero & García, 1997) comb. nov., but can be separated from both of them and all other species of Naushonia by the high mid-dorsal carina, a row of very strong spines on the lateral surface of the carapace, and prominent mid-dorsal crests on the first, second and third pleomeres. A key to all known species of Naushonia is provided.
Accessible surveys cited (1) [+] [-]
Associated collection codes: IU (Crustaceans) -
Anker A. 2017. Strongly carinate species of Alpheopsis Coutière, 1897 of the tropical Atlantic and eastern Pacific, with redescription of A. trigona (Rathbun, 1901) and description of three new species (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Zootaxa 4277(2): 199-227. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4277.2.2
Abstract [+] [-]The present study deals with four species of the alpheid shrimp genus Alpheopsis Coutière, 1897 characterised by the presence of at least one strong carina on the dorsal surface of the carapace. Alpheopsis trigona (Rathbun, 1901) is redescribed based on the holotype from Puerto Rico and additional material from US Virgin Islands and Florida. Two new species closely related to A. trigona, viz. A. paratrigona sp. nov. and A. gotrina sp. nov., are described, the first based on material from several localities in the tropical western Atlantic, and the second from the Pacific coast of Panama and Colombia. The three species together form a distinctive transisthmian clade within Alpheopsis, the A. trigona species complex, characterised by the presence of several strong longitudinal carinae on the carapace and very distinctive colour pattern. A more distantly related species, A. aristoteles sp. nov., characterised by the presence of only one strong mid-dorsal carina in the anterior region of the carapace, is described based on material from São Tomé Island in the tropical eastern Atlantic.
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Associated collection codes: IU (Crustaceans) -
Baeza J.A. & Ocampo E.H. 2018. THE LIFE CYCLE OF SYMBIOTIC CRUSTACEANS: A PRIMER. : 28
Abstract [+] [-]In the subphylum Crustacea, species from most major clades have independently evolved symbiotic relationships with a wide variety of invertebrate and vertebrate hosts. Herein, we review the life cycle disparity in symbiotic crustaceans. Relatively simple life cycles with direct or abbreviated development can be found among symbiotic decapods, mysids, and amphipods. Compared to their closest free-living relatives, no major life cycle modi cations were detected in these clades as well as in most symbiotic cirripeds. In contrast, symbiotic isopods, copepods, and tantulocarids exhibit complex life cycles with major di erences compared to their closest free-living relatives. Key modi cations in these clades include the presence of larval stages well endowed for dispersal and host infestation, and the use of up to di erent host species with dissimilar ecologies throughout their ontogeny. Phylogenetic inertia and restrictions imposed by the body plan of some clades appear to be most relevant in determining life cycle modi cations (or the lack thereof) from the “typical” ground pa ern. Furthermore, the life cycle ground pa ern is likely either constraining or favoring the adoption of a symbiotic lifestyle in some crustacean clades (e.g., in the ecostraca).
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Associated collection codes: IU (Crustaceans) -
Caballer M. & Ortea J. 2014. A new sibling species of Notobryon (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from the Caribbean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94(7): 1-6. DOI:10.1017/S0025315414000605
Abstract [+] [-]A new Scyllaeidae of the genus Notobryon is described from Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. Notobryon caribbaeus sp. nov. is characterized by having the anterior pair of body lobes remarkably bigger than the posterior pair, a stomach with eight triangular plates, a black and very wide ampulla, a lemon-shaped bursa copulatrix and a complex and welldifferentiated sponge-like prostate. The first Caribbean records of Notobryon were provisionally assigned to the Australian species Notobryon cf. wardi and later transferred to Notobryon panamica. However, the structure of the male genital system is one of the main morphological characters to discriminate species in the genus and the presence of a prostate in N. caribbaeus sp. nov. distinguishes it from N. panamica, which remains confined to the eastern Pacific. Of the remaining four species in the world, only Notobryon bijecurum shares this character, but its external anatomy is different: it lacks a bursa copulatrix and the deferent duct is much shorter. Notobryon caribbaeus sp. nov. was captured in the context of an intensive expedition (‘Karubenthos’) organized by the Muse´um National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris and its description raises the total inventory of sea slugs in Guadeloupe to 150.
Accessible surveys cited (1) [+] [-]
Associated collection codes: IM (Molluscs) -
Caballer M. & Ortea J. 2015. A New Shallow Water Species of the Genus Philine ascanius, 1772 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Philinidae) from Venezuela. Journal de Conchyliologie 42(1): 33-40
Abstract [+] [-]A new shallow water species of the genus Philine Ascanius, 1772 is described from the coastal lagoons of the Bay of Buche, Venezuela. This species is characterized by the color pattern of its body, yellowish with white dots, the cephalic shield, as long as the posterior shield, the internal shell with the rear posterior edge not surpassing the apex and the sculpture composed of 6 to 18 striking spiral lines, the innermost lateral teeth of the radula, bearing 10–19 denticles in the masticatory margin and by lacking gizzard plates. Philine buchensis new species is compared with all the species of the genus known to date in the Caribbean, particularly withthose from coastal areas (0–10m): Philine sagra (d´Orbigny, 1841) and Philine caballeri Ortea, Espinosa & Moro, 2001.
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Associated collection codes: IM (Molluscs) -
Caballer M. & Ortea J. 2015. Finishing to untangling the taxonomic knot: new species of the genus Bulbaeolidia Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2013 (Mollusca: Aeolidiidae) from the Caribbean and Galapagos. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 27: 113-123
Abstract [+] [-]The nudibranch gastropod genus Aeolidiella Bergh, 1867 has been found to be polyphyletic. It holds an unnamed clade that was named Bulbaeolidia Carmona, Pola, Gosliner & Cervera, 2013. This genus is composed by four species, two of them unnamed: Bulbaeolidia alba, from Japan,Malaysia and Philippines, Bulbaeolidia japonica, from Japan, Bulbaeolidia sp. B, from Hawaii, and Bulbaeolidia sp. A, from Brazil. Bulbaeolidia was described in the context of a molecular phylogeny, thus, no “taxonomic action” regarding to the unnamed species was taken, leaving the work incomplete, and the 50 % of the members of Bulbaeolidia undescribed. In this paper we describe the Western Atlantic member of the genus Bulbaeolidia and a Pacific species from Galapagos, both cryptic with Bulbaeolidia alba (Risbec, 1929).
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Associated collection codes: IM (Molluscs) -
Caballer M. & Ortea J. 2015. The first species of Spiniphiline Gosliner, 1988 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea) in the Atlantic Ocean, with notes on its systematic position. Journal of Molluscan Studies 82(1): 122–128. DOI:10.1093/mollus/eyv041
Abstract [+] [-]The Indo-Pacific genus Spiniphiline Gosliner, 1988 was erected for a rare species of Cephalaspidea characterized by an internal shell with spines. Spiniphiline kensleyi Gosliner, 1988 was until now the only known species. During the ‘Karubenthos’ expedition to the archipelago of Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea) coordinated by the Muse´um national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, a small philinid was captured on a ma¨ erl bed. This specimen is here described as a new species of Spiniphiline—S. persei. Its occurrence in Guadeloupe is the first record of the genus in the Atlantic Ocean. The systematic position of Spiniphiline is discussed and evidence given for its inclusion in the family Philinidae s. s.
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Associated collection codes: IM (Molluscs) -
Carmona-suárez C. & Poupin J. 2016. Majoidea crabs from Guadeloupe Island, with a documented list of species for the Lesser Antilles (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea). Zoosystema 38(3): 353-387. DOI:10.5252/z2016n3a5
Abstract [+] [-]A collection of Majoidea Samouelle, 1819 crabs carried out during the KARUBENTHOS 2012 Expedition to Guadeloupe Island and sorted during an international workshop at Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise in 2013 is reported. A total of 60 species are identified, 30 being new records for Guadeloupe Island. Each species is presented with notes on habitat, geographical distribution and previous records for the Lesser Antilles. A documented list of 42 additional Majoidea species is also proposed for the Lesser Antilles Islands based on a bibliographic research. A total of 102 Majoidea crabs are currently reported from the Lesser Antilles, of which 81 around Guadeloupe Island.
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Associated collection codes: IU (Crustaceans) -
Chen C.L., Goy J.W., Bracken-grissom H.D., Felder D.L., Tsang L.M. & Chan T.Y. 2016. Phylogeny of Stenopodidea (Crustacea : Decapoda) shrimps inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes reveals non-monophyly of the families Spongicolidae and Stenopididae and most of their composite genera. Invertebrate Systematics 30(5): 479-490. DOI:10.1071/IS16024
Abstract [+] [-]The infraorder Stenopodidea is a relatively small group of marine decapod crustaceans including the well known cleaner shrimps, but their higher taxonomy has been rather controversial. This study provides the most comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analyses of Stenopodidea using sequence data from two mitochondrial (16S and 12S rRNA) and two nuclear (histone H3 and sodium–potassium ATPase a-subunit (NaK)) genes. We included all 12 nominal genera from the three stenopodidean families in order to test the proposed evolutionary hypothesis and taxonomic scheme of the group. The inferred phylogeny did not support the familial ranking of Macromaxillocarididae and rejected the reciprocal monophyly of Spongicolidae and Stenopididae. The genera Stenopus, Richardina, Spongiocaris, Odontozona, Spongicola and Spongicoloides are showed to be poly- or paraphyletic, with monophyly of only the latter three genera strongly rejected in the analysis. The present results only strongly support the monophyly of Microprosthema and suggest that Paraspongiola should be synonymised with Spongicola. The three remaining genera, Engystenopus, Juxtastenopus and Globospongicola, may need to be expanded to include species from other genera if their statuses are maintained. All findings suggest that the morphological characters currently adopted to define genera are mostly invalid and substantial taxonomic revisions are required. As the intergeneric relationships were largely unresolved in the present attempt, the hypothesis of evolution of deep-sea sponge-associated taxa from shallow-water free-living species could not be verified here. The present molecular phylogeny, nevertheless, provides some support that stenopoididean shrimps colonised the deep sea in multiple circumstances.
Accessible surveys cited (14) [+] [-]BIOPAPUA, BORDAU 2, EBISCO, GUYANE 2014, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MUSORSTOM 9, NORFOLK 2, Restricted, PALEO-SURPRISE, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, SANTO 2006, Restricted
Associated collection codes: IU (Crustaceans) -
Couto D.R., Bouchet P., Kantor Y.I., Simone L.R.L. & Giribet G. 2016. A multilocus molecular phylogeny of Fasciolariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 309-322. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.025
Abstract [+] [-]The neogastropod family Fasciolariidae Gray, 1853 – tulips, horse-conchs, spindles, etc., comprises important representatives of tropical and subtropical molluscan assemblages, with over 500 species in the subfamilies Fasciolariinae Gray, 1853, Fusininae Wrigley, 1927 and Peristerniinae Tryon, 1880. Fasciolariids have had a rather complicated taxonomical history, with several genus names for a long time used as waste baskets to group many unrelated species; based on shell characters, recent taxonomic revisions have, however, began to set some order in its taxonomy. The present work is the first molecular approach to the phylogeny of Fasciolariidae based on a multigene dataset, which provides support for fasciolariids, an old group with a fossil record dating back to the Cretaceous. Molecular markers used were the mitochondrial genes 16S rRNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, and the nuclear genes 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA and histone H3, sequenced for up to 116 ingroup taxa and 17 outgroups. Phylogenetic analyses revealed monophyly of Dolicholatirus Bellardi, 1884 and Teralatirus Coomans, 1965, however it was not possible to discern if the group is the sister clade to the remaining fasciolariids; the latter, on the other hand, proved monophyletic and contained highly supported groups. A first split grouped fusinines and Pseudolatirus Bellardi, 1884; a second split grouped the peristerniine genera Peristernia Mörch, 1852 and Fusolatirus Kuroda and Habe, 1971, while the last group comprised fasciolariines and the remaining peristerniines. None of these clades correspond to the present-day accepted circumscription of the three recognized subfamilies.
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Cunha T.J., Lemer S., Bouchet P., Kano Y. & Giribet G. 2019. Putting keyhole limpets on the map: phylogeny and biogeography of the globally distributed marine family Fissurellidae (Vetigastropoda, Mollusca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 135: 249-269. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.008
Abstract [+] [-]Fissurellidae are marine gastropods with a worldwide distribution and a rich fossil record. We integrate molecular, geographical and fossil data to reconstruct the fissurellid phylogeny, estimate divergence times and investigate historical routes of oceanic dispersal. With five molecular markers for 143 terminals representing 27 genera, we resolve deep nodes and find that many genera (e.g., Emarginula, Diodora, Fissurella) are not monophyletic and need systematic revision. Several genera classified as Emarginulinae are recovered in Zeidorinae. Future work should prioritize emarginuline genera to improve understanding of ancestral traits and the early evolution of fissurellids. Tree calibration with the fossilized birth-death model indicates that crown fissurellids originated around 175 Ma, and generally resulted in younger ages for the earliest nodes than the node dating approach. Model-based biogeographic reconstruction, supported by fossils, infers an Indo-West Pacific origin, with a westward colonization of new oceans via the Tethys Seaway upon the breakup of Pangea. Western Atlantic clades then served as source for dispersal towards other parts of the globe. As the sister group to all other fissurellids, Rimula is ranked in its own subfamily, Rimulinae stat. nov. New synonyms: Hemitominae syn. nov. of Zeidorinae stat. nov.; Cranopsis syn. nov. of Puncturella; Variegemarginula syn. nov. of Montfortula.
Accessible surveys cited (13) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, CEAMARC-AA, CONCALIS, EXBODI, GUYANE 2014, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, TARASOC
Associated collection codes: IM (Molluscs) -
Egger C., Neusser T.P., Norenburg J., Leasi F., Buge B., Vannozzi A., Cunha R.L., Cox C.J. & Jörger K.M. 2020. Uncovering the shell game with barcodes: diversity of meiofaunal Caecidae snails (Truncatelloidea, Caenogastropoda) from Central America. ZooKeys 968: 1-42. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.968.52986
Abstract [+] [-]Caecidae is a species-rich family of microsnails with a worldwide distribution. Typical for many groups of gastropods, caecid taxonomy is largely based on overt shell characters. However, identification of species using shell characteristics is problematic due to their rather uniform, tubular shells, the presence of different growth stages, and a high degree of intraspecific variability. In the present study, a first integrative approach to caecid taxonomy is provided using light-microscopic investigation with microsculptural analyses and multi-marker barcoding, in conjunction with molecular species delineation analyses (ABGD, haplotype networks, GMYC, and bPTP). In total 132 specimens of Caecum and Meioceras collected during several sampling trips to Central America were analyzed and delineated into a minimum of 19 species to discuss putative synonyms, and supplement the original descriptions. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest Meioceras nitidum and M. cubitatum should be reclassified as Caecum , and the genus Meioceras might present a junior synonym of Caecum . Meiofaunal caecids morphologically resembling C. glabrum from the Northeast Atlantic are a complex of cryptic species with independent evolutionary origins, likely associated with multiple habitat shifts to the mesopsammic environment. Caecum invisibile Egger & Jörger, sp. nov. is formally described based on molecular diagnostic characters. This first integrative approach towards the taxonomy of Caecidae increases the known diversity, reveals the need for a reclassification of the genus Caecum and serves as a starting point for a barcoding library of the family, thereby enabling further reliable identifications of these taxonomically challenging microsnails in future studies.
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Ereskovsky A.V., Lavrov D.V. & Willenz P. 2014. Five new species of Homoscleromorpha (Porifera) from the Caribbean Sea and re-description of Plakina jamaicensis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94(2): 285-307. DOI:10.1017/S0025315413000295
Abstract [+] [-]Five new species of Homoscleromorpha (Porifera) of four genera, Oscarella, Plakortis, Plakina and Corticium, are described from vertical walls of reef caves at depths ranging from 23 to 28 m in the Caribbean Sea. Oscarella nathaliae sp. nov. has a leaf-like thinly encrusting, flat body, loosely attached to the substrate and a perforated, not lobate surface. Oscarella nathaliae sp. nov. contains two bacterial morphotypes and is characterized by two mesohylar cell types with inclusions. Plakortis myrae sp. nov. has diods of two categories: abundant large ones (83–119 mm long) and rare small ones (67–71 mm long) with sinuous, S-bent centres; triods Y- or T-shaped (18–5 mm long), and abundant microrhabds (5–12 mm long). Plakortis edwardsi sp. nov. has diods of one category with thick, sinuous, S-bent centres (110 to 128 mm long); triods T-shaped (actines 28–59 mm long). It is the only species of this genus showing small diods (22–31 mm long). Plakortis dariae sp. nov. has diods of two categories: large ones (67–112 mm long) and small, rare, irregular ones, slightly curved, often deformed with one end blunt (30–59 mm long); triods rare and regular (actines 20–44 mm long). Corticium diamantense sp. nov. has oscula situated near its border, regular non-lophose calthrops of one size-class, very rare tetralophose calthrops and candelabra with the fourth actine ramified basally in 4–5 microspined rays. In addition, a re-description of Plakina jamaicensis is based on newly collected material and the type specimen. Plakortis jamaicensis has a convoluted brain-like surface; well developed sub-ectosomal cavities; irregular sinuous diods, triods, calthrops, rare monolophose calthrops, rare dilophose calthrops, rare trilophose calthrops and common tetralophose calthrops. Molecular ‘barcoding’ sequences for mitochondrial cob are given for Plakortis edwardsi sp. nov., P. dariae sp. nov., Plakina jamaicensis and Corticium diamantense sp. nov. An identification key for all western Atlantic Homoscleromorpha is provided.
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Associated collection codes: IP (Porifera) -
Espinosa J. & Ortea J. 2012. Nuevas especies de la familia Marginellidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) de la Isla Guadalupe (karukera), Antillas menores, Mar Caribe. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 24(3): 119-151
Abstract [+] [-]Twenty five new species of the family Marginellidae, from the Guadeloupe island, Lesser Antillean, one of the genus Hyalina Schumacher, 1817 and 24 of the genus Volvarina Hinds, 1844, are described, showing data about external anatomy of fourteen species.
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Espinosa J. & Ortea J. 2013. NUEVAS ESPECIES DE LA FAMILIA MARGINELLIDAE (MOLLUSCA: GASTROPODA: PROSOBRANCHIA) DE CUATRO ISLAS DEL CARIBE: CUBA, CURAZAO, GUADALUPE Y MARTINICA. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 25: 195-218
Abstract [+] [-]Twenty new species of the family Marginellidae are described; one belonging to the genus Hyalina Schumacher, 1817, three Prunum Herrmannsen, 1852 and sixteen Volvalrina Hinds, 1844. This species were collected in the islands of Cuba, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Curaçao. Additionally, the holotype of Volvarina albolineata (d'Orbigny, 1842), a controversial species originally described from Cuba, is herein illustrated and seven species cryptic with it are proposed as new to science, within the sixteen new Volvarina.
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Espinosa J. & Ortea J. 2013. Nuevas especies de los generos Dentimargo Cossmann, 1899 y Eratoidea Weinkauff, 1879, y nuevo genero de marginelido de la isla de la Guadeloupe, Antillas menores, mar Caribe (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Marginellidae). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 25: 111-127
Abstract [+] [-]Description of 11 species of the family Marginellidae, three of the genus Dentimargo Cossmann, 1899, seven of the genus Eratoidea Weinkauff, 1879, and a new genus with its type species, found in the cruise Karubenthos-2012 in waters of Guadeloupe Island, Lesser Antillean.
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Espinosa J. & Ortea J. 2013. Nuevas especies de molluscos Prosobranquios marinos de areas caribenas protegidas. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 25: 105-110
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Espinosa J. & Ortea J. 2013. Nuevas especies de moluscos prosobranquios marinos de áreas caribeñas protegidas. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 25: 105-110
Abstract [+] [-]Description of 16 new species of gastropod mollusks from Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Baracoa Sector, Guantánamo, Cuba, 14 prosobranch neogastropods (tree of family Columbellidae Swainson, 1840; 7 of family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865; tree of family Marginellidae Fleming, 1828; one of family Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904) and two heterobranch gastropods (one of family Acteonidae d’Orbigny, 1843 and one of family Pyramidellidae Gray, 1840). Two new species of the genus Dentimargo Coosmann, 1899 (family Marginellidae) of the Maisí-Caleta Ecological Reserve, Guantánamo province, are included.
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Associated collection codes: IM (Molluscs) -
Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Moro L. 2017. Nuevas especies de los géneros Bactrocythara Woodring, 1928 y Agathotoma Coosman, 1899 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Mangeliidae) de Cuba y la Guadalupe, Mar Caribe. Avicennia 20: 7-8
Abstract [+] [-]Two new species of the genera Bactrocythara Woodring, 1928 and Agathotoma Coosman, 1899, from Cuba and Guadelooupe, are described.
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Espinosa J., Ortea J. & Diez garcía Y. 2017. Nuevas especies y nuevos registros de moluscos gasterópodos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) marinos de la región oriental de Cuba. Avicennia 21: 59-67
Abstract [+] [-]Description of five new species of neogastopod prosobranchs, one of the family Columbellidae and four of the family Marginellidae, from the eastern region os Cuba are described. Moreover, others species of marine gastropods are recorded to the Cuban fauna or its eastern region.
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Espinosa J. & Ortea J. 2017. Tras las huellas de Alcide D’Orbigny: el género Eratoidea Weinkauff, 1879 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Marginellidae) en la isla de Martinica, Antillas Menores, con la descripción de dos nuevas especies. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 29: 207-220
Abstract [+] [-]From samples of EratoideaWeinkauff, 1879 collected during the MADIBENTHOS 2016 expedition, the importance of the contribution of d’Orbigny for the knowledge of the molluscs of Martinique and the difficulties for the correct taxonomic identification of E. sulcata (d’Orbigny, 1842) is discussed. Orbigny, 1842). Two new species of the genus are also proposed.
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Faber M.J. 2019. Zebina redferni, a new species from Guadeloupe and Abaco (Gastropoda: Zebinidae). Miscellanea Malacologica 8(4): 55-58
Abstract [+] [-]The KARUBENTHOS I expedition to Guadeloupe (tropical western Atlantic) in May 2012 yielded many new and poorly known marine molluscs, including a new species of Zebinidae, belonging to the genus Zebina. This species was previously recorded from Abaco (Bahamas).
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Faber M.J. 2013. A new western Atlantic genus and species of Pyramidellidae confusingly resembling a rissoinid. (Gastropoda: Pyramidelloidea). Miscellanea Malacologica 6(1): 1-4
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Faber M.J. & Moolenbeek R.G. 2013. Two new species of Rissoinidae from Guadeloupe (Gastropoda: Rissooidea). Miscellanea Malacologica 6(1): 9-14
Abstract [+] [-]The KARUBENTHOS I expedition to Guadeloupe (tropical Western Atlantic) in May 2012 yielded many new and poorly known marine molluscs, including two new species of Rissoinidae belonging to the genera Mirarissoina and Zebinella.
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Faber M.J. & Moolenbeek R.G. 2014. A new species of Chiliostigma (Gastropoda: Rissoinidae) from Guadeloupe and other Caribbean islands. Miscellanea Malacologica 6(5): 65-68
Abstract [+] [-]The KARUBENTHOS expedition to Guadeloupe (tropical western Atlantic) in May 2012 yielded many new and poorly known marine molluscs, including new species of Rissoinidae. In this paper we describe Chiliostigma tumida n. sp. Chiliostigma Melvill, 1912, introduced as a subgenus of Rissoina d’Orbigny, 1840, is used here as a separate genus.
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Fallo P.J.J. 2016. Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species. Zootaxa 4090(1): 1-363. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4090.1.1
Abstract [+] [-]A review of the literature and examination of over 3,200 specimens of shallow water (<200 m) tropical western Atlantic (TWA) Drilliidae Olson, 1964 in museum and private collections has resulted in the recognition of numerous previously undescribed species, 100 of which are proposed here for the first time. A total of 65 names were found in the literature. Of these, 48 are considered valid, 16 synonyms, and one nomen dubium. In addition, characteristics that distinguish each genus currently in use for TWA shallow water species have indicated the need for reassignment (new combinations within Drilliidae) of 15 species. Some nomenclatural actions have come about from the literature review and include one taxon placed in junior synonymy (under an older name recently re-discovered) and one new name for a junior homonym. Two neotypes, five lectotype designations, and one new name are also proposed. Altogether, nomenclatural actions on 17% of valid previously described taxa are proposed. The 100 proposed names are placed in 12 available and one new genus: Agladrillia Woodring, 1928 (2), Bellaspira Conrad, 1868 (7), Calliclava McLean, 1971 (3), Cerodrillia Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 (11), Clathrodrillia Dall, 1918 (6), Decoradrillia, new genus (4), Douglassia Bartsch, 1934 (4), Fenimorea Bartsch, 1934 (15), Leptadrillia Woodring, 1928 (12), Lissodrillia Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 (8), Neodrillia Bartsch, 1943 (2), Splendrillia Hedley, 1922 (13), and Syntomodrillia Woodring, 1928 (13). These are the first reports of Calliclava in the western Atlantic, previously known only from the eastern Pacific. The new genus, Decoradrillia, is proposed to hold four new species and one existing that share a unique shell microsculpture and other morphological traits. One genus, Drillia Gray, 1838, is not currently believed to have TWA representatives. Three genera comprised exclusively of bathyal species are not treated in this work: Clavus Monfort, 1810 (=Eldridgea Bartsch, 1934), Globidrillia Woodring, 1928, and SpirotropisSars, 1878. The significant increase in species within all of the genera has the effect of strengthening the groups’ diagnostic characters by their presence across a greater number of species. Each of the 148 valid species treated herein are described (or redescribed) and photographs of types presented, as are photographs of morphological variants and representatives from separate geographic areas, if available, to illustrate species’ variability.
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Fedesov A.E., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Dgebuadze P. & Bouchet P. 2017. Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179(3): 541-626. DOI:10.1111/zoj.12431
Abstract [+] [-]The neogastropod family Costellariidae is a large and successful group of carnivorous marine mollusks that encompasses about 475 living species. Costellariids are most diverse in the tropical Indo-Pacific at a depth interval of 0–200 m, where they are largely represented by numerous species commonly assigned to the genus Vexillum. The present work expands the taxon sampling of a previous phylogeny of the mitriform gastropods to resolve earlier problematic relationships, and thus establish a robust framework of the family, revise its taxonomy, and uncover major trends in the evolution of costellariid morphology. A multicuspidate rachidian is shown to have appeared at least twice in the evolutionary history of the family: it is regarded as an apomorphy of the primarily Indo-Pacific Vexillum–Austromitra–Atlantilux lineage, and has evolved independently in the Nodicostellaria–Mitromica lineage of the western hemisphere. The genera Ceratoxancus and Latiromitra are transferred from the Ptychatractidae to the Costellariidae. Tosapusia, Protoelongata, and Pusia are ranked as full genera, the latter with the three subgenera Pusia, Ebenomitra, and Vexillena. Vexillum (Costellaria) and Zierliana are treated as synonyms of Vexillum. The replacement name Suluspira is proposed for Visaya Poppe, Guillot de Suduiraut & Tagaro, 2006, non Ahyong, 2004 (Crustacea). We introduce four new genera, Alisimitra, Costapex, Turriplicifer, and Orphanopusia, and characterize their anatomy; 14 new species, mostly from deep water in the Indo-Pacific, are described in the genera Tosapusia, Alisimitra, Costapex, and Pusia. At least two species of Costapex gen. nov. have been collected from sunken wood.
Accessible surveys cited (23) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, BOA1, CONCALIS, EBISCO, EXBODI, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, NORFOLK 2, NanHai 2014, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, TARASOC, TERRASSES, Tuhaa Pae 2013, Restricted
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Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Y., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. 2018. The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 20: 1-85. DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx073/4855867
Abstract [+] [-]Alongside confirmation of the monophyly of the gastropod family Mitridae, a recent molecular phylogenetic analysis disclosed multiple inconsistencies with the existing taxonomic framework. In the present study, we expanded the molecular sampling to 103 species, representing 26% of the 402 extant species currently accepted in the family and 16 of the 19 currently accepted extant genera; 83 species were sequenced for four molecular markers [cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), 16S and 12S rRNA, and H3 (Histone 3)]. Molecular analyses were supplemented by morphological studies, focused on characters of the radula and, in a more restricted data set, proboscis anatomy. These data form the basis for a revised classification of the Mitridae. A first dichotomy divides mitrids into two unequal clades, Charitodoron and the Mitridae s.s. Species of Charitodoron show profound differences to all other Mitridae in foregut anatomy (lacking an epiproboscis) and shell morphology (smooth columella, bulbous protoconch of non-planktotrophic type), which leads to the erection of the separate family Charitodoronidae fam. nov. Three traditional subfamilies (Mitrinae, Cylindromitrinae and Imbricariinae) correspond to three of the inferred phylogenetic lineages of Mitridae s.s.; we redefine their contents, reinstate Strigatellinae Troschel, 1869 as valid and establish the new subfamily Isarinae. In the absence of molecular material, a sixth subfamily, Pleioptygmatinae, is included in Mitridae based on morphological considerations only. To resolve the polyphyly of Mitra and Cancilla in their current taxonomic extension, we reinstate the genera Episcomitra Monterosato, 1917, Isara H. & A. Adams, 1853 and Probata Sarasúa, 1989 and establish 11 new genera: Quasimitra, Roseomitra, Fusidomiporta, Profundimitra, Cancillopsis, Pseudonebularia, Gemmulimitra and Neotiara in Mitrinae; Imbricariopsis in Imbricariinae; Carinomitra and Condylomitra are left unassigned to a subfamily. Altogether 32 genera are recognized within the family. Their diversity and distribution are discussed, along with general trends in morphological evolution of the family.
Accessible surveys cited (20) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, CONCALIS, EBISCO, EXBODI, GUYANE 2014, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, TARASOC, Tuhaa Pae 2013
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Fedosov A.E., Malcolm G., Terryn Y., Gorson J., Modica M.V., Holford M. & Puillandre N. 2019. Phylogenetic classification of the family Terebridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies 85(4): 359-388. DOI:10.1093/mollus/eyz004
Abstract [+] [-]The conoidean family Terebridae is an intriguing lineage of marine gastropods, which are of considerable interest due to their varied anatomy and complex venoms. Terebrids are abundant, easily recognizable and widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters, but our findings have demonstrated that their systematics requires revision. Here we elaborate the classification of Terebridae based on a recently published molecular phylogeny of 154 species, plus characters of the shell and anterior alimentary system. The 407 living species of the family, including seven species described herein, are assigned to three subfamilies: Pellifroniinae new subfamily, Pervicaciinae and Terebrinae. The Pellifroniinae comprises five deep-water species in two genera, Pellifronia and Bathyterebra n. gen. Pellifroniinae possess a radula of duplex marginal teeth, well-developed proboscis and venom gland, and a very small rhynchodeal introvert. The Pervicaciinae includes c. 50 species in the predominantly Indo-Pacific genera Duplicaria and Partecosta. Pervicaciinae possess salivary glands, a radula of solid recurved marginal teeth and a weakly developed rhynchodeal introvert, but lack proboscis and venom gland. The remaining Terebridae species are classified into 15 genera in the subfamily Terebrinae (including four genera described herein); nine genera are defined on the basis of phylogenetic data and six solely on shell morphology. The Indo-Pacific genera Profunditerebra n. gen., Maculauger n. gen. and Myurellopsis n. gen. each include about a dozen species. The first is restricted to the deep waters of the Indo-West Pacific, while the latter two range widely in both geographic and bathymetric distribution. Neoterebra n. gen. encompasses about 65 species from a range of localities in the eastern Pacific, Caribbean, and Atlantic, and from varying depths. To characterize the highly diversified genera Terebra, Punctoterebra, Myurella and Duplicaria, each of which comprise several morphological clusters, we propose the use of DNA-based diagnoses. These diagnoses are combined with more informative descriptions to define most of the supraspecific taxa of Terebridae, to provide a comprehensive revision of the group.
Accessible surveys cited (20) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, CONCALIS, EXBODI, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MADEEP, Restricted, MIRIKY, MUSORSTOM 2, NanHai 2014, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, SANTO 2006, TERRASSES, Restricted, ZhongSha 2015
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Fernandes M.R. & Pimenta A.D. 2020. Unraveling one of the ‘Big Five’: update of the taxonomy of Triphoridae (Gastropoda, Triphoroidea) from Brazil. European Journal of Taxonomy(665): 1-170. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2020.665
Abstract [+] [-]The present study aims to fulfill the gap of taxonomic knowledge on Triphoridae from Brazil. We describe five new species (Isotriphora uncia sp. nov., Isotriphora leo sp. nov., Monophorus verecundus sp. nov., Sagenotriphora albocaput sp. nov., Similiphora lucida sp. nov.), report five species previously known only from the Caribbean and related areas (Cheirodonta dupliniana (Olsson, 1916), Eutriphora auffenbergi Rolán & Lee, 2008, Isotriphora tricingulata Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2015, Marshallora ostenta Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008, Monophorus caracca (Dall, 1927) comb. nov.) and describe six morphotypes at the generic level (Isotriphora sp. 1, Marshallora sp. 1, Nanaphora sp. 1, Sagenotriphora sp. 1, Sagenotriphora sp. 2, Similiphora sp. 1). Remarks are made to some species previously recorded from Brazil, including the invalidation of records, problems of generic allocation and geographical range extensions. Maps of the geographical distribution are provided for the 65 currently recognized species of Triphoridae from Brazil. Of these, 31 species are endemic to Brazil and 58 inhabit the continental shelf vs only seven from the continental slope. A distinct geographical zone occurs in southeastern Brazil. A few species occur exclusively near the mouth of the Amazon River, whereas others inhabit a local biogenic reef, possibly serving as a biogeographical corridor that connects western Atlantic populations. Species of Isotriphora from Brazil are particularly common around oceanic islands, probably due to adopting intracapsular metamorphosis, which may have evolved in more than one evolutionary event.
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Ferry R., Buske Y., Poupin J. & Smith-ravin J. 2017. First record of the invasive swimming crab Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne Edwards, 1867) (Crustacea, Portunidae) off Martinique, French Lesser Antilles. BioInvasions Records 6(3): 239-247. DOI:10.3391/bir.2017.6.3.09
Abstract [+] [-]Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne Edwards, 1867), a crab native to the Indo-West Pacific, was introduced in the western Atlantic in the late 1980s, likely through transport of larvae in ballast water of ships. It has since been reported from North Carolina, southeastern coast of United States, to southern Brazil. This report from Martinique is the first from the Lesser Antilles. Specimens were collected during scuba-diving surveys conducted during March/April 2016 to study the population size, distribution, and habitat-use of this invader. Two hundred and thirteen transects, each 60 m2, were searched, in 2–15 m depths, in five coves of the southwestern peninsula of the island. We observed 150 individuals, of which 135 were collected. Most (89 %) specimens were mature with a male:female sex ratio of 2.4:1. Carapace widths ranged between 17.3 and 58.1 mm, with males significantly larger than females. Most crabs (93%) were found in dense seagrass beds of Halophila stipulacea, although a few (7%) were found on bare substrate with rocks and artificial mooring blocks. C. hellerii was absent from sand, coral with rocks and sponges, and mixed beds of algae and seagrass, possibly due to the presence of predators. The maximum observed density in the dense seagrass beds was 0.37 crab m-2. Predatory behavior of C. hellerii on other crabs was observed, suggesting this alien crab could alter existing community structure and functioning.
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Galindo L.A., Puillandre N., Strong E.E. & Bouchet P. 2014. Using microwaves to prepare gastropods for DNA barcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources 14(4): 700-705. DOI:10.1111/1755-0998.12231
Abstract [+] [-]Extracting DNA from gastropods presents particular difficulties due to the capacity of the living animal to retract into the shell, resulting in poor penetration of the ethanol into the tissues. Because the shell is essential to establish the link between sequences and traditional taxonomic identity, cracking the shell to facilitate fixation is not ideal. Several methods are currently in routine use to overcome this difficulty, including chemical relaxation, drilling the shell and boiling. Most of these methods are time-consuming, may be safety hazards and constitute a bottleneck in the preparation of large numbers of specimens in the field. We have experimented with a method traditionally used to clean shells that involves placing the living gastropods in a microwave (MW) oven; the electromagnetic radiation very quickly heats both the animal and the water trapped inside the shell, resulting in separation of the muscles that anchor the animal to the shell. Done properly, the body can be removed intact from the shell and the shell voucher is preserved undamaged. To test the method, the bodies of live-collected specimens from two gastropod species were separated from their shell by microwaving and by anesthetizing/drilling. After identical extraction and PCR procedures, the gels showed no difference in DNA quantity or quality, and the resulting sequences are identical within species. The method was then implemented on a large scale during expeditions, resulting in higher percentage of DNA extraction success. The MWs are also effective for quickly and easily removing other molluscs from their shells, that is, bivalves and scaphopods. Workflows implementing the MW technique show a three- to fivefold increase in productivity compared with other methods.
Accessible surveys cited (8) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, KARUBENTHOS 2012, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SANTO 2006, Restricted
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Galindo L.A., Puillandre N., Utge J., Lozouet P. & Bouchet P. 2016. The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 337-353. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.019
Abstract [+] [-]Nassariidae are a group of scavenging, predominantly marine, snails that are diversified on soft bottoms as well as on rocky shores, and are the subject of numerous research papers in ecology, ecotoxicology or paleontology. A weak and/or apparently continuous variation in shell characters has resulted in an intimidating taxonomy, with complex synonymy lists. Over 1320 extant nominal species have been described, of which 442 are currently regarded as valid. Above species level, the state of the art is equally hazy, with four subfamilies and twelve genera currently accepted, and many other names in the graveyard of synonymy. A molecular analysis based on three mitochondrial (COI, 16S, 12S) and two nuclear (28S, H3) markers was conducted. Our dataset includes 218 putative nassariid species, comprising 9 of the 12 valid genera, and 25 nominal genera represented by their type species. The monophyly of the Nassariidae as classically construed is not confirmed. Species of Antillophos, Engoniophos, Phos, Nassaria, Tomlinia and Anentome (formerly considered Buccinidae) are included inside the Nassariidae clade. Within the Nassariinae, the tree unexpectedly demonstrates that species from the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific form different clades which represent several independent diversification events. Through an integrative approach, the reconstruction of ancestral states was addressed for eight characters supposedly informative for taxonomy. Using numerous fossil calibration points, Nassariidae appear to have originated 120 MYA ago in Atlantic temperate waters during the Lower Cretaceous. Our results have a profound impact on nassariid taxonomy, especially with regard to the validity of subfamily- and genus-level names.
Accessible surveys cited (19) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, CONCALIS, EBISCO, EXBODI, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2012, LIFOU 2000, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, Restricted, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, SALOMON 2, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, TARASOC, TERRASSES
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Garrigues B. & Merle D. 2014. Nine new species of Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the French Antilles. Zoosystema 36(4): 841–864
Abstract [+] [-]Nine new species of Muricidae from Guadeloupe, mainly collected during the 2012 KARUBENTHOS expedition, are described. Typhinellus lamyi n. sp. is compared with the similar species T. labiatus (Cristofori & Jan, 1832) from the Mediterranean Sea and T. occlusus (Garrard, 1963) from the Philippines. Dermomurex (Trialatella) pruvosti n. sp., D. (T.) boucheti n. sp., D. (T.) fajouensis n. sp. and D. (T.) tararensis n. sp. are compared with D. abyssicola (Crosse, 1865) occurring in the same area and with D. (T.) oxum Petuch, 1979 which ranges from Panama to Brazil. Pygmaepterys pointieri n. sp. and P. karukerensis n. sp. are compared with P. germainae Vokes & D’Attilio, 1980 and P. aliceae (Petuch, 1987). Muricopsis guadalupensis n. sp. is compared with M. caribbaea (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939) occurring throughout the Tropical West Atlantic and to M. marcusi Vokes, 1994 from Brazil. Lindapterys domlamyi n. sp. is compared with L. sanderi Petuch, 1987 from Barbados and Brazil and to the type species of the genus, L. vokesae Petuch, 1987 from the Early Miocene of Florida (USA). The name Murex hexagonus Lamarck, 1816, usually considered to be a primary homonym of Murex hexagonus (Gmelin, 1791), is rehabilitated (article 23.9.5, ICZN 1999). A lectotype of this species, is designated from the two syntypes housed in the MNHNG. Murex hexagonus is compared with other related Murexsul from the Caribbean area including M. oxytatus (Smith, 1938), M. zylmanae (Petuch, 1993), M. huberti (Radwin & D’Attilio, 1976), M. chesleri Houart, 2006, M. sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987), M. warreni (Petuch, 1993) and M. jahami Merle & Garrigues, 2011.
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Garrigues B. & Lamy D. 2016. Description de trois nouvelles espèces de Muricidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collectées durant l’expédition du MNHN en Guyane Française et réhabilitation de Murex mexicanus Petit de la Saussaye, 1852. Xenophora Taxonomy 12: 30-44
Abstract [+] [-]Trois nouvelles espèces de Muricidae ont été collectées au cours de l’expédition « La Planète Revisitée » en Guyane Française en 2014-2015. Les deux premières, Phyllonotus guyanensis n. sp. et Phyllonotus salutensis n. sp. appartiennent au genre Phyllonotus Swainson, 1833. Dans la région Atlantique Ouest, cinq espèces sont actuellement répertoriées dans ce genre : Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791), P. oculatus (Reeve, 1845), P. margaritensis (Abbott, 1958), P. globosus Emmons, 1858 et P. whymani Petuch & Sargent, 2011. Phyllonotus guyanensis n. sp. décrit ici est comparé à deux espèces proches : P. pomum et P. whymani. Phyllonotus pomum est largement répandu de la Caroline du Nord au Nord de l’Amérique du Sud tandis que P. whymani n’est connu que de sa localité-type, Dry Tortuga, Florida Keys. La deuxième espèce, Phyllonotus salutensis n. sp., est comparée à P. margaritensis des Iles du nord-est du Venezuela, P. globosus de la presqu’île du Paraguana au nord-ouest du Venezuela et P. pomum. Murex mexicanus Petit de la Saussaye, 1852, du Golfe du Mexique, (non Murex mexicanus Stearns, 1894 = Chicoreus maurus (Broderip, 1833)) a toujours été confondu avec P. pomum. Il est ici réhabilité sous le taxon de Phyllonotus mexicanus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852). Phyllonotus oculatus se distingue de toutes les autres espèces nommées ci-dessus par une protoconque multispirale (Houart, 1987) et n’est pas abordé ici. La troisième espèce est une Favartia Jousseaume, 1880, Favartia charlesi n. sp. Elle est comparée avec l’espèce voisine F. hidalgoi (Crosse, 1869) rencontrée du Golfe du Mexique au Sud du Brésil entre 120 et 400 m de profondeur.
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Garrigues B. & Lamy D. 2017. Description d’une nouvelle espèce de Dermomurex (Muricidae, Muricinae) collectée au cours de l’expédition KARUBENTHOS 2 en Guadeloupe, Antilles Françaises. Xenophora Taxonomy 16: 39-43
Abstract [+] [-]Dermomurex spinosus, nouvelle espèce de Guadeloupe, Antilles Françaises, est décrit dans ce travail. Il a été récolté en juin 2015 au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (MNHN) par 312-480 m de profondeur. Sept espèces appartenant au genre Dermomurex sont répertoriées en Guadeloupe: Dermomurex abyssicola (Crosse, 1865), D. boucheti Garrigues & Merle, 2014, D. pruvosti Garrigues & Merle, 2014, D. fajouensis Garrigues & Merle, 2014, D. tararensis Garrigues & Merle, 2014, D. alabastrum (Adams, 1864) et D. worsfoldi Vokes, 1992. Le séquençage a permis de rapprocher avec un bon support statistique la nouvelle espèce de D. boucheti et de D. neglecta (Habe & Kosuge, 1971) publié par Marco et al. en 2010 (N. Puillandre communication personnelle). Dermomurex spinosus n. sp. est comparé à ces deux espèces ainsi qu’à deux autres espèces proches : Dermomurex (Takia) gofasi Houart, 1996 et D. (T.) infrons Vokes, 1974.
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Garrigues B. & Lamy D. 2018. Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du MNHN dans les eaux profondes de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) et description de trois nouvelles espèces des genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy(20): 34-52
Abstract [+] [-]Cet article comprend deux parties. La première est une liste des muricidés récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 (2015) dans les eaux profondes des îles de Guadeloupe. Les Coralliophilinae sont exclus de cette étude et seront traités ultérieurement. Hormis les Coralliophilinae, 28 espèces ont été recensées pour le moment. Parmi elles, quatre étaient nouvelles pour la science. Le Dermomurex spinosus Garrigues & Lamy, 2017 a été récemment décrit. Les trois autres appartenant aux genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys font l’objet de la deuxième partie.
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Glover E.A. & Taylor J.D. 2016. Pleurolucina from the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans: a new intertidal species from Curaçao with unusual shell microstructure (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Lucinidae). ZooKeys 620: 1-19. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.620.9569
Abstract [+] [-]A new shallow water species of the lucinid bivalve Pleurolucina is described from Curaçao in the southern Caribbean Sea and compared with known species of the genus from the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans. Although confused with the Floridian species P. leucocyma, it is most similar to the eastern Pacific P. undata. As in all studied lucinids, the new species possesses symbiotic bacteria housed in the ctenidia. The shell microstructure is unusual with repeated and intercalated conchiolin layers that have sublayers of ‘tulip-shaped’ calcareous spherules. Predatory drillings by naticid gastropods frequently terminate at the conchiolin layers.
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Guinot D. 2019. New hypotheses concerning the earliest brachyurans (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Geodiversitas 41(1): 747. DOI:10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a22
Abstract [+] [-]All Jurassic brachyuran taxa known to date are based solely upon dorsal carapaces, and only a limited number of Early and mid-Cretaceous crabs retain ventral parts. Therefore, all Jurassic taxa and many forms from the first half of the Cretaceous are carapace-based entities. All of them are considered to be “dromiaceans”, podotremes to be precise. The recent discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved male crab from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian) of Chiapas (Mexico), Archaeochiapasa mardoqueoi Guinot, Carbot-Chanona & Vega, 2019, at first sight of a podotreme nature, has allowed a detailed description of its thoracic sternum and pleon, which revealed that it was actually a typical eubrachyuran, in need of a new family, Archaeochiapasidae Guinot, Carbot-Chanona & Vega, 2019. This has brought back to life one of my earlier ideas about the possible non-podotreme nature of certain enigmatic Late Jurassic and Cretaceous Brachyura previously placed in various “dromiacean” (i.e., podotreme) families and superfamilies. My investigations have led the me to formulate the present hypothesis that the extinct families Bucculentidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2009 (currently assigned to the Homolodromioidea Alcock, 1900), Lecythocaridae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2009, Glaessneropsidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2009, Nodoprosopidae Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2009, and Viaiidae Artal, Van Bakel, Fraaije, Jagt & Klompmaker, 2012 (all four in Glaessneropsoidea Schweitzer & Feldmann, 2009) might, in fact (at least for some of them), be true eubrachyurans (Eubrachyura Saint Laurent, 1980). If correct, these assumptions would date the first “true crabs” as Jurassic, contrary to the currently held view that the earliest Eubrachyura (heterotremes) did not appear until the Cretaceous, and suggest that the evolutionary history of brachyurans started much earlier. This was unpredictable, at least for palaeontologists, but not so in view of a molecular estimate of decapod phylogeny that recovered the Majoidea Samouelle, 1819 as the oldest brachyuran lineage, with a divergence from other brachyurans from, at least, the Middle Triassic. The basal majoid family Oregoniidae Garth, 1958, which comprises only three extant genera, has several characters in common with Archaeochiapasidae; these leave little doubt about their close relationships.
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Kantor Y., Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Bonillo C. & Bouchet P. 2017. Returning to the roots: morphology, molecular phylogeny and classification of the Olivoidea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180: 493-541. DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw003
Abstract [+] [-]The superfamily Olivoidea is broadly distributed in the world’s oceans mostly in coastal waters at tropical and subtropical latitudes. It encompasses around 30 Recent genera and 460 species. Two families – Olividae and Olivellidae – are classically recognized within the superfamily. Their shell is very characteristic due to the presence of a modified callused anterior end and a fasciole. Prior to the present work, neither the monophyly of the superfamily nor the relationships among its genera had been tested with molecular phylogenetics. Four genetic markers [cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), 16S and 12S rRNA mitochondrial genes, and Histone 3 (H3) nuclear gene] were sequenced for 42 species in 14 genera. Additionally, 18 species were sequenced for COI only. The molecular dataset was supplemented by anatomical and radula data. Our analysis recovered, albeit with weak support, a monophyletic Olivoidea, which in turn includes with 100% support, in addition to traditional olivoideans, representatives of a paraphyletic Pseudolividae. The relationships between the former families and subfamilies are drastically revised and a new classification of the superfamily is here proposed, now including five families: Bellolividae fam. nov., Benthobiidae fam. nov., Olividae, Pseudolividae and Ancillariidae. Within Olividae four subfamilies are recognized, reflecting the high morphological disparity within the family: Olivinae, Olivellinae, Agaroniinae and Calyptolivinae subfam. nov. All the recent genera are discussed and reclassified based on molecular phylogeny and/or morphology and anatomy. The homology of different features of the shells is established for the first time throughout the superfamily, and a refined terminology is proposed. Based on a correlation between anatomical characteristics and shell features and observations of live animals, we make hypotheses on which part of the mantle is responsible for depositing which callused feature of the shell. Our results demonstrate that morphological data alone should be used with caution for phylogenetic reconstructions. For instance, the radula – that is otherwise considered to be of fundamental importance in the taxonomy of Neogastropoda – is extremely variable within the single family Olividae, with a range of variation larger than within the rest of the entire superfamily. In the refined classification, Pseudolividae are nested within Olivoidea, which is partially returning to ‘the roots’, that is to the classification of Thiele (1929).
Accessible surveys cited (21) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, CONCALIS, Restricted, EBISCO, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, NORFOLK 2, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, Restricted, SALOMON 2, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, TARASOC, TERRASSES
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Kantor Y.I., Fedosov A.E., Kosyan A.R., Puillandre N., Sorokin P.A., Kano Y., Clark R. & Bouchet P. 2022. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194(3): 789-857. DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031
Abstract [+] [-]Abstract The superfamily Buccinoidea is distributed across the oceans of the world from the Arctic Ocean to the Antarctic and from intertidal to abyssal depths. It encompasses 3351 recent species in 337 genera. The latest taxonomic account recognized eight full families. For the first time, the monophyly of the superfamily and the relationships among the families are tested with molecular data supplemented by anatomical and radula data. Five genetic markers were used: fragments of mitochondrial COI, 16S rRNA, 12S rRNA and nuclear Histone 3 (H3) and 28S rRNA genes (for 225 species of 117 genera). Our analysis recovered Buccinoidea monophyletic in Bayesian analyses. The relationships between the formerly recognized families and subfamilies are drastically revised and a new classification of the superfamily is here proposed, now including 20 taxa of family rank and 23 subfamilies. Five new families (Chauvetiidae, Dolicholatiridae, Eosiphonidae, Prodotiidae and Retimohniidae) and one subfamily of Nassariidae (Tomliniinae) are described. Austrosiphonidae and Tudiclidae are resurrected from synonymy and employed in a new taxonomical extension. All but 40 recent genera are reclassified. Our results demonstrate that anatomy is rather uniform within the superfamily. With exceptions, the rather uniform radular morphology alone does not allow the allocation of genera to a particular family without additional molecular data.
Accessible surveys cited (32) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, BOA1, CONCALIS, CORSICABENTHOS 1, DongSha 2014, EBISCO, GUYANE 2014, ILES DU SALUT, INHACA 2011, KANACONO, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVALAN 2018, KOUMAC 2.1, MADIBENTHOS, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, NORFOLK 2, NanHai 2014, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, TAIWAN 2004, TARASOC, TERRASSES, Tuhaa Pae 2013, ZhongSha 2015
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Kantor Y.I., Fedosov A.E., Snyder M.A. & Bouchet P. 2018. Pseudolatirus Bellardi, 1884 revisited, with the description of two new genera and five new species (Neogastropoda: Fasciolariidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 433: 1-57. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2018.433
Abstract [+] [-]The genus Pseudolatirus Bellardi, 1884, with the Miocene type species Fusus bilineatus Hörnes, 1853, has been used for 13 Miocene to Early Pleistocene fossil species and eight Recent species and has traditionally been placed in the fasciolariid subfamily Peristerniinae Tryon, 1880. Although the fossil species are apparently peristerniines, the Recent species were in their majority suspected to be most closely related to Granulifusus Kuroda & Habe, 1954 in the subfamily Fusininae Wrigley, 1927. Their close affinity was confirmed by the molecular phylogenetic analysis of Couto et al. (2016). In the molecular phylogenetic section we present a more detailed analysis of the relationships of 10 Recent Pseudolatirus-like species, erect two new fusinine genera, Okutanius gen. nov. (type species Fusolatirus kuroseanus Okutani, 1975) and Vermeijius gen. nov. (type species Pseudolatirus pallidus Kuroda & Habe, 1961). Five species are described as new for science, three of them are based on sequenced specimens (Granulifusus annae sp. nov., G. norfolkensis sp. nov., Okutanius ellenae gen. et sp. nov.) and two (G. tatianae sp. nov., G. guidoi sp. nov.) are attributed to Granulifusus on the basis of conchological similarities to sequenced species. New data on radular morphology is presented for examined species.
Accessible surveys cited (20) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, CONCALIS, DongSha 2014, EBISCO, GUYANE 2014, KANACONO, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MADEEP, MIRIKY, NanHai 2014, Restricted, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, SANTO 2006, TARASOC, TERRASSES
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Kantor Y.I., Kosyan A., Sorokin P., Herbert D.G. & Fedosov A. 2020. Review of the abysso-hadal genus Bayerius (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the North-West Pacific, with description of two new species. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 160: 103256. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103256
Abstract [+] [-]The abyssal and hadal Buccinoidea from the north-western Pacific formerly attributed to the genera Tacita and Calliloncha were analyzed for the first time using both multilocus molecular and morphological data. The results allow re-evaluation of the inter- and intrageneric variability of morphological characters and demonstrate that Tacita, Calliloncha and Paracalliloncha are synonyms of Bayerius, a genus widely distributed in the Pacific Ocean. In our reconstructed phylogeny the genus forms a maximally supported clade with Pararetifusus tenuis and Turrisipho dalli. At present, Bayerius includes 10 species, two of which are described herein as new to science, B. inflatus sp. nov. and B. nekrasovorum sp. nov. with one additional undescribed species represented in our material by a single specimen. The genus is reviewed, with the addition of new data on anatomy and distribution, based on newly obtained material. B. peruvianus is synonymized with B. zenkewitchi. Calliloncha nankaiensis together with Costaria crosnieri are attributed to a new genus, Warenius gen. nov., which clusters with several genera of Buccinoidea from biogenic substrata.
Accessible surveys cited (9) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MIRIKY, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, TAIWAN 2004, ZhongSha 2015
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Kantor Y.I., Castelin M., Fedosov A. & Bouchet P. 2020. The Indo-Pacific Amalda (Neogastropoda, Olivoidea, Ancillariidae) revisited with molecular data, with special emphasis on New Caledonia. European Journal of Taxonomy(706): 1-52. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2020.706
Abstract [+] [-]In the ancillariid genus Amalda, the shell is character rich and 96 described species are currently treated as valid. Based on shell morphology, several subspecies have been recognized within Amalda hilgendorfi, with a combined range extending at depths of 150–750 m from Japan to the South-West Pacific. A molecular analysis of 78 specimens from throughout this range shows both a weak geographical structuring and evidence of gene flow at the regional scale. We conclude that recognition of subspecies (richeri Kilburn & Bouchet, 1988, herlaari van Pel, 1989, and vezzaroi Cossignani, 2015) within A. hilgendorfi is not justified. By contrast, hilgendorfi-like specimens from the Mozambique Channel and New Caledonia are molecularly segregated, and so are here described as new, as Amalda miriky sp. nov. and A. cacao sp. nov., respectively. The New Caledonia Amalda montrouzieri complex is shown to include at least three molecularly separable species, including A. allaryi and A. alabaster sp. nov. Molecular data also confirm the validity of the New Caledonia endemics Amalda aureomarginata, A. fuscolingua, A. bellonarum, and A. coriolis. The existence of narrow range endemics suggests that the species limits of Amalda with broad distributions, extending, e.g., from Japan to Taiwan (A. hinomotoensis) or even Indonesia, the Strait of Malacca, Vietnam and the China Sea (A. mamillata) should be taken with caution.
Accessible surveys cited (42) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, BATHUS 1, BATHUS 2, BATHUS 3, BIOCAL, BIOPAPUA, CHALCAL 1, CONCALIS, EBISCO, EXBODI, HALIPRO 1, INHACA 2011, KANACONO, KANADEEP, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, LAGON, MADEEP, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, MUSORSTOM 4, MUSORSTOM 5, NORFOLK 1, NORFOLK 2, NanHai 2014, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, Restricted, SALOMON 2, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, SMIB 1, SMIB 2, SMIB 3, SMIB 4, SMIB 5, SMIB 8, TARASOC, TERRASSES, VAUBAN 1978-1979, Restricted, ZhongSha 2015
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Lemaitre R., Felder D.L. & Poupin J. 2017. Discovery of a new micro-pagurid fauna (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae) in the Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea. Zoosystema 39(2): 151-195. DOI:10.5252/z2017n2a1
Abstract [+] [-]Six new monotypic genera and eight new species of hermit crabs of the family Paguridae Latreille, 1802 are fully described based on specimens obtained during two separate, intensive biodiversity studies on the islands of Guadeloupe, Curaçao, and Dominica in the Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea. The study in Guadeloupe utilized a broad variety of sampling techniques, including dredging, baited traps, and a SCUBA-operated vacuum device; in Curaçao and Dominica, a manned submersible was used. The high number of new taxa discovered is surprising given they were obtained in a relatively small area of the Antilles in habitats ranging in depth from shallow water (c. 1 m) to deep reefs (250 m). Tissue samples were extracted from most specimens for CO1 barcoding and other genetic analyses for future phylogenetic investigations. Gene sequences are reported to complement the morphological descriptions. The new species are unusual in their minute sizes, ranging 0.4-1.5 mm in shield length; and aspects of their morphology, in particular gill number and characteristics of male sexual tubes, which could not be clearly matched to any of the existing genera of Paguridae. The term “micro-pagurid” is introduced for this diverse, diminutive fauna of Paguridae (adult shield length ≤ 1.5 mm), discovered living in cryptic habitats and complex deep reef structures of these three islands. A brief, preliminary discussion of the possible significance of this micro-pagurid diversity, specialized morphology, and biogeography is included.
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Lemaitre R. 2020. New and rare micro-pagurid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Zootaxa 4722(4): 301-325. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4722.4.1
Abstract [+] [-]Six species of hermit crabs of the family Paguridae from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico region, including two new species, Anisopagurus asteriscus sp. nov. and Pagurus alarius sp. nov., are documented. The two new species are described, and recognition characters summarized for the four previously known species. Reports of the latter, Nematopaguroides fagei Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968, N. karukera Lemaitre, Felder & Poupin, 2017, Paguriscus robustus Lemaitre, Felder & Poupin, 2017, and Pylopaguridium markhami McLaughlin & Lemaitre, 2001, represent range extensions for all four species. Color photographs are included for four of the species, as well as remarks on their taxonomy and distributions. All six species included can be categorized as micro-pagurids (with shield length rarely exceeding 2.0 mm), and were collected from cryptic reef habitats in Bocas del Toro, Panama; the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe; and the Gulf of Mexico coasts of Louisiana, Yucatán, and Florida Keys. The discovery of these new or rare species supports the conclusion of recent studies that the diversity of pagurids from the Caribbean region has yet to be fully realized.
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Lemer S., Buge B., Bemis A. & Giribet G. 2014. First molecular phylogeny of the circumtropical bivalve family Pinnidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia): Evidence for high levels of cryptic species diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 75: 11-23. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.008
Abstract [+] [-]The family Pinnidae Leach, 1819, includes approximately 50 species of large subtidal and coastal marine bivalves. These commercially important species occur in tropical and temperate waters around the world and are most frequently found in seagrass meadows. The taxonomy of the family has been revised a number of times since the early 20th Century, the most recent revision recognizing 55 species distributed in three genera: Pinna, Atrina and Streptopinna, the latter being monotypic. However, to date no phylogenetic analysis of the family has been conducted using morphological or molecular data. The present study analyzed 306 pinnid specimens from around the world, comprising the three described genera and ca. 25 morphospecies. We sequenced the mitochondrial genes 16S rRNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, and the nuclear ribosomal genes 18S rRNA and 28S rRNA. Phylogenetic analysis of the data revealed monophyly of the genus Atrina but also that the genus Streptopinna is nested within Pinna. Based on the strong support for this relationship we propose a new status for Streptopinna Martens, 1880 and treat it as a subgenus (status nov.) of Pinna Linnaeus, 1758. The phylogeny and the species delimitation analyses suggest the presence of cryptic species in many morphospecies displaying a wide Indo-Pacific distribution, including Pinna muricata, Atrina assimilis, A. exusta and P. (Streptopinna) saccata but also in the Atlantic species A. rigida. Altogether our results highlight the challenges associated with morphological identifications in Pinnidae due to the presence of both phenotypic plasticity and morphological stasis and reveal that many pinnid species are not as widely distributed as previously thought.
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Lima D., Tavares M. & De mendonça J.B.J. 2019. Paguroids (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae and Paguridae) of the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, off southeast Brazil, with new records, description of three new species and zoogeographical notes. Zootaxa 4694(1): 1-63. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4694.1.1
Abstract [+] [-]Trindade and Martin Vaz (TMV) is a highly isolated, oceanic volcanic archipelago located some 1200 km off the Brazilian coast and about 4200 km away from the nearest African coast. For almost 100 years Calcinus tibicen (Herbst, 1791) was the only hermit crab species known from TMV. From 2012 to 2018, 263 daytime SCUBA diving and intertidal samplings conducted at TMV yielded 1075 paguroid specimens in 10 species, three of which are established herein as new species: Iridopagurus martinvaz sp. nov., Nematopagurus micheleae sp. nov., and Pagurus carmineus sp. nov. Iridopagurus margaritensis García-Gómez, 1983, and Phimochirus leurocarpus McLaughlin, 1981, both only known from the northern hemisphere, are recorded for the first time from the southwestern Atlantic. Opportunity was taken herein to include hitherto unreported or little known specimens from along the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, namely, Dardanus venosus H. Milne Edwards, 1848, Nematopaguroides pusillus Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968, Pagurus provenzanoi Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968, and Phimochirus holthuisi (Provenzano, 1961). The lectotype of Pagurus venosus H. Milne Edwards, 1848 is designated as the neotype for the obscure Pagurus arrosor divergens Moreira, 1905, which thus becomes an objective junior synonym of the former. A list of all paguroid species known from the tropical southern-central Atlantic oceanic archipelagoes and islands (Ascension, Cape Verde, Fernando de Noronha, Gulf of Guinea, Rocas Atoll, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martin Vaz) with their gross distribution in the Atlantic Ocean is provided. Investigation on the existence of patterns of geographic distribution for the paguroid fauna of the tropical southern-central Atlantic oceanic islands showed that 70% percent of the paguroids from TMV are western Atlantic in origin and 30% endemic. No amphi-Atlantic paguroid species are known from TMV. Conversely, the affinity of Ascension’s (33%) and Saint Helena’s (50%) paguroids is with the eastern Atlantic; no western Atlantic paguroids have been reported from these two islands so far. Exploration on the existence of trends of correlation between islands area and species richness through the Spearman’s coefficient of correlation showed that the patterns in the number of paguroid species cannot be explained by variation in island area alone (rs = 0.4728; p = 0.28571).
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Lozouet P. & Galindo L.A. 2015. Resolution of the confused classification of some Miocene Nassariidae, and reappraisal of their paleobiodiversity on the French Atlantic seaboard. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 144(1): 31-50. DOI:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/144/031-050
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Moolenbeek R.G. & Faber M.J. 2014. Studies on West Indian Marine Molluscs 91. A new species of Chiliostigma (Gastropoda: Rissoinidae) from Guadeloupe and other Caribbean islands. Miscellanea Malacologica 6(5): 65-68
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Morrison H.M., Kirkendale L.A. & Wilson N.G. 2020. A review of extant Tudivasum Rosenberg & Petit, 1987 (Neogastropoda: Turbinellidae) and description of three new species from Western Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies: eyaa030. DOI:10.1093/mollus/eyaa030
Abstract [+] [-]Tudivasum Rosenberg & Petit, 1987 is a morphologically distinct gastropod genus of low diversity. All but one species are known from Australia and they occur from the intertidal zone down to hundreds of metres on the continental shelf. These carnivorous gastropods are thought to have intracapsular development. The six currently recognized extant species are reviewed here and their geographical ranges clarified. Two new species, Tudivasum chaneyi n. sp. and T. ashmorense n. sp., are described from Ashmore Reef, Western Australia, and are characterized by differences in protoconch colour and shell sculpture. The third new species, T. westrale n. sp., is described from the mid-west coast of Western Australia, where it has long been misidentified as T. spinosum (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864). We generated a molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data to test morphological species concepts and reconstruct relationships among four of the described species. High levels of divergence within one of the new species could indicate an additional cryptic species.
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Negri M., Schubart C.D. & Mantelatto F.L. 2018. Tracing the introduction history of the invasive swimming crab Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) in the Western Atlantic: evidences of high genetic diversity and multiple introductions. Biological Invasions 20(7): 1771-1798. DOI:10.1007/s10530-018-1660-0
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Neiber M.T. & Glaubrecht M. 2019. Oligohalinophila , a new genus for the brackish water assassin snail Canidia dorri Wattebled, 1886 from Vietnam (Buccinoidea: Nassariidae: Anentominae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. DOI:10.1093/mollus/eyy065
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Ng P.K. & Castro P. 2016. Revision of the family Chasmocarcinidae Serène, 1964 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Goneplacoidea). Zootaxa 4209(1): 1-182. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4209.1.1
Abstract [+] [-]The family Chasmocarcinidae Serène, 1964, is revised based on the examination of the type material of many of its species as well as unidentified and previously identified material from around the world. The revised family now consists of three subfamilies comprising 16 genera (including eight described as new) and 51 species (including 19 described as new). The subfamily Chasmocarciinae Serène, 1964, consists of Amboplax n. gen. with one species; Angustopelta n. gen. with four species, two of which are new; Camatopsis Alcock & Anderson, 1899, with six species, five of which are new; Chasmocarcinops Alcock, 1900, with one species; Chasmocarcinus Rathbun, 1898, with 11 species, one of which is new; Chinommatia n. gen. with five species, two of which are new; Deltopelta n. gen. with one species; Hephthopelta Alcock, 1899, with two species, one of which is new; Microtopsis Komai, Ng & Yamada, 2012, with two species, one of which is new; Notopelta n. gen. with one species; Statommatia n. gen. with five species, two of which are new; and Tenagopelta n. gen. with three species, two of which are new. The subfamily Megaesthesiinae Števčić, 2005, consists of Alainthesius n. gen. with two species, both of which are new; Megaesthesius Rathbun, 1909, with four species, one of which is new. The subfamily Trogloplacinae Guinot, 1986, consists of Australocarcinus Davie, 1988, with three species, and Trogloplax Guinot, 1986, with one species. A neotype is selected for Chasmocarcinus cylindricus Rathbun, 1901. Three nominal species were found to be junior subjective synonyms of other species: Chasmocarcinus panamensis Serène, 1964, of C. longipes Garth, 1940; Chasmocarcinus rathbuni Bouvier, 1917, of C. typicus Rathbun, 1898; and Hephthopelta superba Boone, 1927, of Deltopelta obliqua (Rathbun, 1898). Thirteen chasmocarcinid genera are exclusively found in the Indo-West Pacific region, one (Chasmocarcinus) in both the Western Atlantic and Tropical Eastern Pacific regions, and two (Deltopelta n. gen. and Amboplax n. gen.) exclusively in the Western Atlantic. Chasmocarcinids are remarkable for occurring from depths exceeding 1000 m to shallow water and completely freshwater habitats: chasmocarcinines and megaesthesiines are found from shallow to deep water marine ecosystems, whereas trogloplacines live in freshwater streams, including cave systems.
Accessible surveys cited (29) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BATHUS 1, BATHUS 2, BATHUS 4, BIOPAPUA, BOA1, BORDAU 1, Restricted, CORINDON 2, EXBODI, HALIPRO 1, KARUBAR, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, MUSORSTOM 1, MUSORSTOM 10, MUSORSTOM 2, MUSORSTOM 3, MUSORSTOM 4, MUSORSTOM 6, MUSORSTOM 8, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 1, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006
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Ortea J., Espinosa J., Caballer M. & Buske Y. 2012. Initial inventory of the sea slugs (Opisthobranchia and Sacoglossa) from the expedition Karubenthos, held in may 2012 in Guadeloupe (lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 24: 153-182
Abstract [+] [-]A systematic inventory of the sea slugs collected during the expedition Karubenthos-2012, in Guadeloupe island (Karukera), is herein presented. It includes a total of 117 species; 97 Opisthobranchia and 20 Sacoglossa; 85 of them are recorded for the first time. Previous records of other species not collected in the campaign are added to the catalog, which includes a total of 127 species, 42 of them illustrated. Additionally, a new species of Dendrodoris Ehrenberg, 1831, is described and specimens of Paradoris indecora (Marcus, 1970) and three different species of Doto Oken, 1815 collected for the first time in Guadeloupe, are studied in detail: Doto awapa Ortea, 2001, Doto curere Ortea, 2001 and Doto torrelavega Ortea & Caballer, 2005.
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Ortea J., Espinosa J., Moro L., Caballer M. & Bacallado J.J. 2012. Notas en Opisthobranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda) 5: Sobre el uso de la concha interna como carácter sistemático de primer orden en el inventario de las especies Atlánticas de la familia Aglajidae (Mollusca: Cephalaspidea). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 24: 183–195
Abstract [+] [-]The use of the internal shell of the Cephalaspidea belonging to the Family Aglajidae is proposed as critical systematic character to distinguish taxa. The shell of 11 Atlantic species is herein illustrated.
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Ortea J., Espinosa J., Buske Y. & Caballer M. 2013. Additions to the inventory of the sea slugs (Opisthobranchia and Sacoglossa) from Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 25: 163-194
Abstract [+] [-]A systematic list including 23 species of sea slugs, 18 opisthobranchia and 5 saco-glossa, recorded for the first time in Guadeloupe Island, is herein presented. These species were collected during the expedition Karubenthos-2012 (may and December 2012) hosted by the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Additionally, 1 new genus and 8 new species (6 opisthobranchia and 2 sacoglossa) are described. With this contribution, the inventory of the sea slugs from Guadeloupe raises to 149 species, 9 of them newly described.
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Ortea J., Moro L. & Caballer M. 2014. Contribución al estudio de la familia Pleurobranchidae Gray, 1827 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) en la Macaronesia y las islas Galápagos. Vieraea 42: 117-148
Abstract [+] [-]All the species of the genres Pleurobranchus Cuvier, 1804 and Berthellina Gardiner, 1936 described or cited in the Macaronesia are revised. The records of Pleurobranchus areolatus Mörch, 1863 in the Canaries are transferred to Pleurobranchus crossei Vayssiere, 1896. Pleurobranchus lowei Watson, 1897, from Madeira, is synonymized with Berthellina edwardsi (Vayssiere, 1896). The name Pleurobranchus garciagomezi Cervera, Cattaneo & Edmunds, 1996 is applied to the specimens, endemic to Cape Verde, that match in the chromatic pattern of the holotype of this species. Pleurobranchus wirtzi, new species, is described to include the rest of the specimens from other islands in the Macaronesia, identified in the literature as P. garciagomezi. Two new species of Berthella Blainville, 1828 and Berthellina are described from Cape Verde and compared with two Caribbean taxa, Pleurobranchus evelinae Thompson, 1978 and Berthellina quadridens (Mörch, 1863). New anatomical data are given on the latter. In addition, the Pleurobranchidae from Galapagos obtained in the expeditions organized by the “Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Tenerife” in Tenerife is studied, given that two Atlantic species, Pleurobranchus areolatus and Berthellina engeli Gardiner, 1936, have been recorded there.
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Ortea J. 2014. Cómo integrar ciencia y naturaleza: descripción de nuevas especies de Volvarina Hinds, 1844 (Mollusca: Marginellidae) de la isla de Guadeloupe y sus islotes satélites (Antillas menores, mar Caribe), nombradas en honor de treinta mujeres distinguidas con el premio L’OREAL-UNESCO. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 26: 129-188
Abstract [+] [-]Thirty new species of the genre Volvarina Hinds, 1844, (Marginellidae) found in the Guadeloupe Island (Lesser Antilles) and its islets are described, illustrating live animals seven of them and twenty two radular architectures, which are used to propose its fragmentation into subgenres and separation upcoming taxa.
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Ortea J., Moro L., Magaña J., Espinosa J. & Caballer M. 2014. Notas en Opisthobranchia: 9. restablecimiento de Peltodoris nayarita Ortea & Llera, 1981 como especie válida. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 26: 299-308
Abstract [+] [-]The synonymy of Peltodoris nayarita Ortea & Llera, 1981, from the Pacific coast of America, is discussed with its Atlantic congener P. greeleyi MacFarland, 1966. In this paper we propose to maintain both of them as separated species within the genus Diaulula Bergh, 1874.
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Ortea J., Caballer M., Moro L. & Espinosa J. 2014. What the shell tells in Aglajidae: a new genus for Aglaja felis (Opisthobranchia: Cephalaspidea). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 26: 83-119
Abstract [+] [-]In the most recent molecular phylogeny of the Aglajidae, the Caribbean species Aglaja felis Marcus & Marcus, 1970 was transferred to the Japanese genus Nakamigawaia Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961 without justification or support. The assumed N. felis was used as the only representative of the genus in the phylogeny, which did not include the type species: Nakamigawaia spiralis Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961. The material determined as A. felis came from Bahamas, Papua New Guinea and Philippines and the conclusion was that they were a complex of species; the Indo-Pacific ones possibly new and all of them belonging to the genus Nakamigawaia. Nonetheless, a simple comparison of shells of the type species of Aglaja Renier, 1881 and Nakamigawaia with A. felis, shows remarkable and supra-specific differences. Thus, in absence of N. spiralis, Nakamigawaia would not be represented in the phylogeny of the Aglajidae, but a distinct taxa, distributed in the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific. Migaya Ortea, Caballer & Espinosa new genus, is proposed to relocate A. felis. This genus is characterized by bearing sensorial bristles on the head, by its internal shell and supported by the molecular phylogeny. In the same phylogeny, the genus Chelidonura A. Adams, 1850 was fragmented in several independent clades, one of them, characterized by the shell bearing a crest in the protoconch. Two new species of this clade are described in this paper. The shell can be very helpful to assign the right names in the Aglajidae and using it is recommended even in papers where the molecular techniques are applied. A visual analysis of the usefulness of the shell within the group is performed using the established phylogeny as a frame for comparison.
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Ortea J. 2015. Descripción de 21 especies de Gibberula Swainson, 1840 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cystiscidae) en honor de 21 mujeres distinguidas con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 27: 137-187
Abstract [+] [-]Twenty one new species of the genus Gibberula Swainson, 1840, found in the Caribbean Sea (Guadalupe, LesserAntilles), are described, illustrating living animals from all of them and 18 radular architectures. The new taxa has been named in honor of 21 female winners of the Prince of Asturias Award.
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Ortea J. & Espinosa J. 2015. Estudio de un grupo de especies caribeñas enmascaradas en el nombre Aegires sublaevis Odhner, 1932 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) utilizando técnicas tradicionales. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 27: 243-258
Abstract [+] [-]Specimens from the Canary Islands of Aegires sublaevis Odhner, 1932 are studied to establish the distinctiveness of the species and its variability, in order to separate four closely related taxa in the Caribbean Sea, which are described as new species, using techniques of traditional taxonomy.
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Ortea J. & Espinosa J. 2016. La subfamilia Plesiocystiscinae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) en La Guadeloupe, Antillas Menores. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 28: 65-78
Abstract [+] [-]Three new species of three genera of the Plesiocystiscidae subfamily are described from specimens collected in the island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. Of the three new taxa illustrations of live animals and radular architecture two of them are provided.
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Ortea J. & Espinosa J. 2016. Una nueva especie del género Hyalina Schumacher, 1817 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) de la isla de Martinica, Antillas Menores. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias XXVIII: 225-230
Abstract [+] [-]From specimens collected on the island of Martinique, Lesser Antillas, a new species of the genus Hyalina Schumacher, 1817 (Marginellidae), characterized by the shell and coloration of the living animal, and compared with its two congeners in the Lesser Antilles, is described.
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Ortea J. 2016. Una segunda especie atlántica del género Hoplodoris Bergh, 1880 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) colectada en Martinica, Antillas Menores. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias 28: 201-208
Abstract [+] [-]From a specimen of 50 mm collected in a mangrove of Martinique, Lesser Antilles, during the Madibenthos expedition, the second Atlantic species of the genus Hoplodoris Bergh, 1880 (Nudibranchia) is described, characterized by the colour of the living animal, tubers mantle, rhinophores, gills, labial cuticle and radule.
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Ortea J. & Espinosa J. 2017. Description de un nuevo dorido (Mollusca: Nubranchia) del grupo "verrucoda" en rl mar Caribe. Avicennia 20: 21-22
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Ortea J., Moro L. & Espinosa J. 2017. El género Lapinura (Marcus & Marcus, 1963) (Mollusca: Runcinacea) en el Atlántico, con la descripción de nuevas especies de las islas de Cabo Verde y Costa Rica. Avicennia 21: 11-18
Abstract [+] [-]Three different species of the genus Lapinura Marcus & Marcus, 1970 are separated from exemplars collected in the islands of Cape Verde and insular Caribbean. One of it is associated with Lapinura divae Marcus, 1963, type specimen of the genus, and the other two are described as new: L. josemeloi, from the islands of Cape Verde, and L. aestus, from the continental Caribbean of Costa Rica. On three species, Data about their internal anatomy, outer shell, gill and coloring of living animals are provided.
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Pachelle P.P., Anker A., Mendes C.B. & Bezerra L.E. 2016. Decapod crustaceans from the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil: an updated checklist of marine and estuarine species, with 23 new records. Zootaxa 4131(1): 1-63. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4131.1.1
Abstract [+] [-]The present study is the first major assessment of the marine decapod fauna of Ceará, northeastern Brazil, since contributions of J. Fausto-Filho in the 1960s–1970s. A fully updated checklist of all decapod crustaceans occurring in marine and estuarine habitats of Ceará is provided, based on literature records, specimens held in two carcinological collections of the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), and material collected mainly by the authors between 2011 and 2014. A total of 337 decapod species are listed, distributed among the following taxa: Achelata (8 species), Anomura (42 species), Astacidea (1 species), Axiidea (11 species), Brachyura (162 species), Caridea (83 species), Dendrobranchiata (20 species), Gebiidea (9 species), and Stenopodidea (1 species). Among them, 23 species represent new records for Ceará, with 14 species, viz. Alpheus peasei (Armstrong, 1940), A. thomasi Hendrix & Gore, 1973, Ambidexter symmetricus Manning & Chace, 1971, Axianassa australis Rodrigues & Shimizu, 1992, Biffarius biformis (Biffar, 1971), B. fragilis (Biffar, 1970), Leptalpheus axianassae Dworschak & Coelho, 1999, L. forceps Williams, 1965, Lysmata bahia Rhyne & Lin, 2006, L. intermedia (Kingsley, 1878), Merhippolyte americana Holthuis, 1961, Neocallichirus maryae Karasawa, 2004, Ogyrides hayi Williams, 1981, and Typton carneus Holthuis, 1951, now having Ceará as the northern-most limit in their distribution range along the Brazilian coastline. One shrimp species, Lysmata lipkei Okuno & Fiedler, 2010, which was also found in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, possibly represents an invasive taxon in Brazil and the western Atlantic, originating from the Indo-West Pacific. Alpheus buckupi Almeida, Terossi, Araújo-Silva & Mantelatto, 2013, previously recorded from Ceará based on a colour photograph, is confirmed from this state, with specimens from several new localities. A few doubtful records from Ceará are briefly discussed. Colour photographs are provided for most of the taxa newly recorded from Ceará; some species are illustrated in colour for the first time.
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Pelorce J. & Faber M.J. 2013. A new species of Columbellidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) from Guadeloupe and other Caribbean Islands. Miscellanea Malacologica 6(1): 5-8
Abstract [+] [-]Anachis karukeraensis n. sp. is described from Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. No other species has shell-characters close to those of the new species, which is temporarily assigned to the genus Anachis, sensu lato.
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Peña freire V., Rousseau F., De reviers B. & Le gall L. 2014. First assessment of the diversity of coralline species forming maerl and rhodoliths in Guadeloupe, Caribbean using an integrative systematic approach. Phytotaxa 190(1): 190-215. DOI:10.11646/phytotaxa.190.1.13
Abstract [+] [-]The present study documents species of coralline algae that form maerl and rhodoliths in Guadeloupe, Caribbean using an integrative systematic approach of combining molecular (COI-5P, psbA) and morphological/anatomical data. Maerl and rhodoliths were collected by SCUBA and dredging from six localities in Guadeloupe during the Karubenthos Expedition, which was coordinated by the Parc National de la Guadeloupe and the Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle. Of the twelve maerl and rhodolith specimens collected and sequenced, eight specific entities were delimitated based on the analysis of molecular data: Lithothamnion cf. ruptile, five species of the genus Lithothamnion, one species of the genus Spongites, and the remaining one was either assigned to the genus Lithoporella or Mastophora. Morphological/anatomical data are presented for each of these species. Molecular analyses revealed that Lithothamnion. cf ruptile and other four species (Lithothamnion spp.1–4) were resolved in a distinct lineage than the other Lithothamnion species examined. Nevertheless, these five species were provisionally remained in the genus Lithothamnion based on the presence of flared epithallial cells. Previously, only three species of Lithothamnion have been cited in the Caribbean. Till this study species belonging to the genus Spongites have not been hitherto reported for this region. The specimen identified as either Lithoporella or Mastophora shared anatomical features with both genera. Further examination of reproductive material is required to identify this specimen to a lower taxonomical rank. This study is the first to report the occurrence of maerl and rhodoliths belonging to the genus Lithothamnion at 110 m depth; this record being the deepest for the genus in the Caribbean Sea. Our results have revealed that species diversity of Caribbean maerl has been underestimated and further surveys coupled with an integrative taxonomic approach on this biodiversity hotspot are necessary.
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Phuong M.A., Alfaro M.E., Mahardika G.N., Marwoto R.M., Prabowo R.E., Von rintelen T., Vogt P.W.H., Hendricks J.R. & Puillandre N. 2019. Lack of Signal for the Impact of Conotoxin Gene Diversity on Speciation Rates in Cone Snails, in Serb J.(Ed.), Systematic Biology 68(5): 781-796. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syz016
Abstract [+] [-]Abstract Understanding why some groups of organisms are more diverse than others is a central goal in macroevolution. Evolvability, or the intrinsic capacity of lineages for evolutionary change, is thought to influence disparities in species diversity across taxa. Over macroevolutionary time scales, clades that exhibit high evolvability are expected to have higher speciation rates. Cone snails (family: Conidae, $>$900 spp.) provide a unique opportunity to test this prediction because their toxin genes can be used to characterize differences in evolvability between clades. Cone snails are carnivorous, use prey-specific venom (conotoxins) to capture prey, and the genes that encode venom are known and diversify through gene duplication. Theory predicts that higher gene diversity confers a greater potential to generate novel phenotypes for specialization and adaptation. Therefore, if conotoxin gene diversity gives rise to varying levels of evolvability, conotoxin gene diversity should be coupled with macroevolutionary speciation rates. We applied exon capture techniques to recover phylogenetic markers and conotoxin loci across 314 species, the largest venom discovery effort in a single study. We paired a reconstructed timetree using 12 fossil calibrations with species-specific estimates of conotoxin gene diversity and used trait-dependent diversification methods to test the impact of evolvability on diversification patterns. Surprisingly, we did not detect any signal for the relationship between conotoxin gene diversity and speciation rates, suggesting that venom evolution may not be the rate-limiting factor controlling diversification dynamics in Conidae. Comparative analyses showed some signal for the impact of diet and larval dispersal strategy on diversification patterns, though detection of a signal depended on the dataset and the method. If our results remain true with increased taxonomic sampling in future studies, they suggest that the rapid evolution of conid venom may cause other factors to become more critical to diversification, such as ecological opportunity or traits that promote isolation among lineages.
Accessible surveys cited (23) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, CONCALIS, EBISCO, EXBODI, GUYANE 2014, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MADEEP, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, NORFOLK 2, NanHai 2014, Restricted, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, TAIWAN 2013, TERRASSES, Restricted
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Poupin J. & Lemaitre R. 2014. Porcellanid crabs from Guadeloupe Island (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura), with an updated list of species from the Lesser Antilles. Zoosystema 36(1): 5-27. DOI:10.5252/z2014n1a1
Abstract [+] [-]A collection of porcellanid crabs from Guadeloupe Island, Caribbean Sea Lesser Antilles, is reported. The specimens were obtained during the KARUBENTHOS Expedition (V.2012), a 1-month intensive survey of selected habitats in shallowwater to moderate depth (intertidal to 160 m). A total of 20 species were found, 15 of which represent new records for Guadeloupe Island. Almost all species were photographed in color shortly after capture. For each species, a diagnosis, notes on habitat, geographical distribution, and taxonomic remarks, are given. The 20 species of porcellanid crabs found in Guadeloupe Island represent 54% of a total of 37 species known from the entire Lesser Antilles (Anguilla to Trinidad) and the islands off Venezuela (Testigos to Aruba). The richness of the porcellanid fauna of Guadeloupe Island indicates a high biodiversity potential in other decapod crustaceans or invertebrates in general, living in marine habitats of this Island.
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Poupin J. & Corbari L. 2016. A preliminary assessment of the deep-sea Decapoda collected during the KARUBENTHOS 2015 Expedition to Guadeloupe Island. Zootaxa 4190(1): 1-107. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4190.1.1
Abstract [+] [-]A preliminary assessment of the deep-sea Decapoda is proposed for Guadeloupe Island based solely on high definition macro photographs taken during the KARUBENTHOS 2015 Expedition to the Island (R/V Antea, 7–29 June 2015). Overall, 190 species are recognized, several of which are depicted with their fresh color for the first time. Previous records in the Lesser Antilles are documented and the geographic distribution of the species in these Islands is given. The historical contribution of the steamer Blake (1878–1879) in the Lesser Antilles is emphasized. All species inventoried during KARUBENTHOS 2015 were already reported in the western Atlantic but 34 of them are new records for the Lesser Antilles and 116 are reported for the first time from Guadeloupe Island. This preliminary inventory is estimated to include about 38% of the deep-sea Decapoda potentially occurring around Guadeloupe Island.
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Rolán E. & Fernández-garcés R. 2015. Triphorids of the Karubenthos Expedition to Guadeloupe Island. Gloria Maris 54(2): 46-54
Abstract [+] [-]The triphorid species collected during the Karubenthus Expedition to Guadeloupe Island are discussed. Two species are introduced as new to science and compared with their closest congeners.
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Rousseau F., Gey D., Kurihara A., Maggs C.A., Martin-lescanne J., Payri C., De reviers B., Sherwood A.R. & Le gall L. 2017. Molecular phylogenies support taxonomic revision of three species of Laurencia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta), with the description of a new genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 269: 1-19. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2017.269
Abstract [+] [-]The systematics of the Laurencia complex was investigated using a taxon-rich data set including the chloroplast ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (rbcL) gene only and a character-rich data set combining mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 (COI-5P), the rbcL marker, and the nuclear large subunit of the ribosomal operon (LSU). Bayesian and ML analyses of these data sets showed that three species hitherto placed in the genus Laurencia J.V.Lamour. were not closely related to Laurencia s. str. Laurencia caspica Zinova & Zaberzhinskaya was the sister group of the remaining Osmundea Stackh. species, L. crustiformans McDermid joined Palisada and L. fl exilis Setch. consisted of an independent lineage. In light of these results a new genus, Ohelopapa F.Rousseau, Martin-Lescanne, Payri & L.Le Gall gen. nov., is proposed to accommodate L. fl exilis. This new genus is morphologically characterized by four pericentral cells in each vegetative axial segment; however, it lacks ‘corps en cerise’ in cortical cells and secondary pit connections between cortical cells, which are characteristic of Laurencia. Three novel combinations are proposed to render the classifi cation closer to a natural system: Ohelopapa fl exilis (Setch.) F.Rousseau, Martin-Lescanne, Payri & L.Le Gall comb. nov., Osmundea caspica (Zinova & Zaberzhinskaya) Maggs & L.M.McIvor comb. nov. and Palisada crustiformans (McDermid) A.R.Sherwood, A.Kurihara & K.W.Nam comb. nov.
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Rubio F., Rolán E. & Fernández-garcés R. 2015. Revision of the genera Parviturbo and Pseudorbis (Gastropoda, Skeneidae) - Revisión de los géneros Parviturbo y Pseudorbis (Gastropoda, Skeneidae). Iberus 33(2): 167-259
Abstract [+] [-]A revision of the genus Parviturbo Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945, distributed in the Atlantic Ocean, the American Pacific, and the Tropical South Pacific, is presented for the first time. In total 33 species were studied, of which 12 were already known (5 in the Eastern Atlantic, 5 in the Western Atlantic, and 2 in the American Pacific); 20 more are described as new species (4 in the Eastern Atlantic, 12 in the Western Atlantic, and 4 in the Tropical South Pacific) and one more from the Mediterranean is presented without a name. We provide new data on the radula for Parviturbo insularis, and the morphology of the shell is described and illustrated for all the species using scanning electron microscopy. Data on their distribution and habitat are also provided, and their generic allocation is discussed. The presence of species Parviturbo in the Tropical Pacific is confirmed. The type material of several species (Parviturbo rehderi Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945, Cyclostrema granulum Dall, 1899 and Delphinula tuberculosa d’Orbigny, 1842 is illustrated and a lectotype is designated for the latter species. Parviturbo dibellai Buzzurro & Cecalupo, 2007 is excluded from the genus, and considered a junior synonym of Fossarus eutorniscus Melvill, 1918; the species is transferred to Vitrinellinae but without a definite generic assignment. The two known Recent species of Pseudorbis, a genus close to Parviturbo, are studied for comparison and the differences and similarities between these two genera are discussed.
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Rubio F. & Rolán E. 2015. The species of Haplocochlias (Gastropoda, Skeneidae) from Guadeloupe Island (Caribbean Sea) collected in the KARUBENTHOS Expedition. Novapex 15(1): 1-12
Abstract [+] [-]Seven species of the genus Haplocochlias, collected during the Karubenthos Expedition to the island of Guadeloupe, are studied. Of these, 4 were previously known species and 3 are described as new to science. Each species is illustrated by scanning electron microscope photographs, clarifying its identity and discussing its specifie variability, whenever this was possible. Data on the habitat, distribution and bathymetrie range of the new species described are provided.
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Rösler A., Perfectti F., Peña V. & Braga J.C. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of corallinaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): taxonomic implications for reef-building corallines, in Gabrielson P.(Ed.), Journal of Phycology 52(3): 412-431. DOI:10.1111/jpy.12404
Abstract [+] [-]A new, more complete, five-marker (SSU, LSU, psbA, COI, 23S) molecular phylogeny of the family Corallinaceae, order Corallinales, shows a paraphyletic grouping of seven well-supported monophyletic clades. The taxonomic implications included the amendment of two subfamilies, Neogoniolithoideae and Metagoniolithoideae, and the rejection of Porolithoideae as an independent subfamily. Metagoniolithoideae contained Harveylithon gen. nov., with H. rupestre comb. nov. as the generitype, and H. canariense stat. nov., H. munitum comb. nov., and H. samo€ense comb. nov. Spongites and Pneophyllum belonged to separate clades. The subfamily Neogoniolithoideae included the generitype of Spongites, S. fruticulosus, for which an epitype was designated. Pneophyllum requires reassesment. The generitype of Hydrolithon, H. reinboldii, was a younger heterotypic synonym of H. boergesenii. The evolutionary novelty of the subfamilies Hydrolithoideae, Metagoniolithoideae, and Lithophylloideae was the development of tetra/bisporangial conceptacle roofs by filaments surrounding and interspersed among the sporangial initials.
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Sabroux R., Corbari L., Krapp F., Bonillo C., Le prieur S. & Hassanin A. 2017. Biodiversity and phylogeny of Ammotheidae (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida). European Journal of Taxonomy 286: 1-33. DOI:10.5852/ejt.2017.286
Abstract [+] [-]The family Ammotheidae is the most diversified group of the class Pycnogonida, with 297 species described in 20 genera. Its monophyly and intergeneric relationships have been highly debated in previous studies. Here, we investigated the phylogeny of Ammotheidae using specimens from poorly studied areas. We sequenced the mitochondrial gene encoding the first subunit of cytochrome c oxidase (CO1) from 104 specimens. The complete nuclear 18S rRNA gene was sequenced from a selection of 80 taxa to provide further phylogenetic signal. The base composition in CO1 shows a higher heterogeneity in Ammotheidae than in other families, which may explain their apparent polyphyly in the CO1 tree. Although deeper nodes of the tree receive no statistical support, Ammotheidae was found to be monophyletic and divided into two clades, here defined as distinct subfamilies: Achelinae comprises the genera Achelia Hodge, 1864, Ammothella Verrill, 1900, Nymphopsis Haswell, 1884 and Tanystylum Miers, 1879; and Ammotheinae includes the genera Ammothea Leach, 1814, Acheliana Arnaud, 1971, Cilunculus Loman, 1908, Sericosura Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969 and also Teratonotum gen. nov., including so far only the type species Ammothella stauromata Child, 1982. The species Cilunculus gracilis Nakamura & Child, 1991 is reassigned to Ammothella, forming the binomen Ammothella gracilis (Nakamura & Child, 1991) comb. nov. Additional taxonomic re-arrangements are suggested for the genera Achelia, Acheliana, Ammothella and Cilunculus.
Accessible surveys cited (10) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, BATHUS 3, BIOPAPUA, GUYANE 2014, KARUBENTHOS 2012, KAVIENG 2014, MAINBAZA, Restricted, PAPUA NIUGINI, SANTO 2006
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Sanders M.T., Merle D., Bouchet P., Castelin M., Beu A.G., Samadi S. & Puillandre N. 2017. One for each ocean: revision of the Bursa granularis (Röding, 1798) species complex (Gastropoda: Tonnoidea: Bursidae)-. Journal of Molluscan Studies 83(4): 384-398. DOI:10.1093/mollus/eyx029
Abstract [+] [-]Bursa granularis (Röding, 1798) is a tonnoidean gastropod that is regarded as broadly distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific and tropical western Atlantic. Because of its variable shell it has received no less than thirteen names, now all synonymized under the name B. granularis. We sequenced a fragment of the cox1 gene for 82 specimens covering a large part of its distribution and most type localities. Two delimitation methods were applied, one based on genetic distance (ABGD) and one based on phylogenetic trees (GMYC). All analyses suggest that specimens identified as B. granularis comprise four distinct species: one limited to the tropical western Atlantic, another to southwestern Western Australia and two in the Indo-Pacific (from the Red Sea to the open Pacific) that are partly sympatric—but not syntopic—in Japan, the Philippines, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Based on comparison of shell characters, we applied the following available names to the four species, respectively: B. cubaniana (d’Orbigny, 1841), B. elisabettae Nappo, Pellegrini & Bonomolo, 2014, B. granularis s. s. and B. affinis Broderip, 1833. We provide new standardized conchological descriptions for each of them. Our results demonstrate that a long planktotrophic larval stage, common among Tonnoidea, does not necessarily ensure a circumtropical species distribution.
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Sanders M.T., Merle D., Laurin M., Bonillo C. & Puillandre N. 2021. Raising names from the dead: A time-calibrated phylogeny of frog shells (Bursidae, Tonnoidea, Gastropoda) using mitogenomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 156: 107040. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107040
Abstract [+] [-]With 59 Recent species, Bursidae, known as «frog shells», are a small but widely distributed group of tropical and subtropical gastropods that are most diverse in the Indo-West Pacific. The present study is aimed at recon structing phylogenetic relationships of bursid gastropods based on extensive and representative taxon sampling. Five genetic markers (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (cox1), 16 s and 12 s rRNA mitochondrial genes, 28 s rRNA and Histone H3 nuclear gene) were sequenced for over 30 species in every known genus but Crossata. Furthermore, we sequenced the complete mt-genome of 9 species (10 specimens) (Aspa marginata, Marsupina bufo, Korrigania quirihorai, Korrigania fijiensis, Tutufa rubeta, Bursa lamarckii, Lampasopsis rhodostoma (twice), Bufonaria perelegans and Bursa aff. tuberosissima). Our analysis recovered Bursidae as a monophyletic group, whereas the genus Bursa was found to be polyphyletic. The genera Talisman and Dulcerana are resurrected and the genera Alanbeuella gen. nov. and Korrigania gen. nov. are described. Dating analysis using 21 extinct taxa for node and simplified tip calibrations was performed, showing a diversification of the group in two phases. Diversification may be linked to tectonic events leading to biodiversity relocation from the western Tethys to ward the Indo-Pacific.
Accessible surveys cited (22) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, CONCALIS, EBISCO, EXBODI, GUYANE 2014, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, NORFOLK 1, NORFOLK 2, Restricted, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, SANTO 2006, TERRASSES, Tuhaa Pae 2013, Restricted, ZhongSha 2015
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Schnabel K.E., Kou Q. & Xu P. 2021. Integrative Taxonomy of New Zealand Stenopodidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) with New Species and Records for the Region. Diversity 13(8): 343. DOI:10.3390/d13080343
Abstract [+] [-]The New Zealand fauna of the crustacean infraorder Stenopodidea, the coral and sponge shrimps, is reviewed using both classical taxonomic and molecular tools. In addition to the three species so far recorded in the region, we report Spongicola goyi for the first time, and formally describe three new species of Spongicolidae. Following the morphological review and DNA sequencing of type specimens, we propose the synonymy of Spongiocaris yaldwyni with S. neocaledonensis and review a proposed broad Indo-West Pacific distribution range of Spongicoloides novaezelandiae. New records for the latter at nearly 54◦ South on the Macquarie Ridge provide the southernmost record for stenopodidean shrimp known to date.
Accessible surveys cited (15) [+] [-]BATHUS 1, BIOCAL, BIOGEOCAL, BORDAU 2, CALSUB, GUYANE 2014, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MIRIKY, MUSORSTOM 4, MUSORSTOM 8, Restricted, PAPUA NIUGINI, SANTO 2006, SMIB 4
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Snyder M.A. 2012. The 2012 Guadeloupe Biodiversity Expedition. American Conchologist 40(3): 4-10
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Soledade G.O., Terossi M., Scioli J.A., Mantelatto F.L. & Almeida A.O. 2019. A new western Atlantic snapping shrimp of the Alpheus macrocheles group (Caridea, Alpheidae) revealed by morphological, molecular and color data. European Journal of Taxonomy(581). DOI:10.5852/ejt.2019.581
Abstract [+] [-]Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835), a species originally described from the northeastern Atlantic, has been reported from Brazil based on material from the north and northeast coasts and Espírito Santo. However, a thorough morphological comparison between Brazilian material reported as A. macrocheles and eastern Atlantic material of A. macrocheles revealed consistent differences, suggesting that the Brazilian specimens belong to an undescribed species. Alpheus ramosportoae sp. nov. is therefore now described based on material from Amapá to Pernambuco, Brazil. Morphological differences between the new species and A. macrocheles s. str. were supported by the clear divergence of 16S rRNA gene sequences (18% of genetic distance), separating the species in two distinct clades. Differences in the color pattern also were observed and illustrated.
Accessible surveys cited (1) [+] [-]
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Soledade G.O., Scioli J.A., Terossi M., Mantelatto F.L. & Almeida A.O. 2019. Congruence between morphology and molecular data supports the distinction between the snapping shrimps Alpheus macrocheles and A. amblyonyx (Caridea, Alpheidae). Zootaxa 4624(1): 1-22. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.1
Abstract [+] [-]The snapping shrimp Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835b) is widely distributed across the Atlantic Ocean and was originally described from Hastings, England, based on a very brief description with limited morphological details and diagnostic illustrations. The morphologically similar A. amblyonyx Chace, 1972, type locality Quintana Roo, Mexico, is a western Atlantic taxon. The superficial description of A. macrocheles by Hailstone and the high similarity with A. amblyonyx has led to taxonomic confusion regarding the precise identification of these species. Thus, our objective was to reexamine these two species, based on a combined analysis of morphological—including a redescription for A. macrocheles and new morphological characterization of A. amblyonyx—and molecular data. In total, 42 morphological characters were analyzed, in addition to a phylogenetic analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences. A Bayesian Inference analysis recovered A. macrocheles and A. amblyonyx as distinct clades supporting the taxonomic distinction between them. The tree topology suggests that A. macrocheles is more closely related to A. crockeri (Armstrong, 1941) and A. puapeba (Christoffersen, 1979) than to A. amblyonyx, which forms the sister group to a well-supported clade containing these three species. This contribution conclusively distinguishes between A. macrocheles and A. amblyonyx and points out the need for a comprehensive review involving all species of the larger A. macrocheles group.
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Strong E.E., Galindo L.A. & Kantor Y.I. 2017. Quid est Clea helena? Evidence for a previously unrecognized radiation of assassin snails (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea: Nassariidae). PeerJ 5: e3638. DOI:10.7717/peerj.3638
Abstract [+] [-]The genus Clea from SE Asia is from one of only two unrelated families among the megadiverse predatory marine Neogastropoda to have successfully conquered continental waters. While little is known about their anatomy, life history and ecology, interest has grown exponentially in recent years owing to their increasing popularity as aquarium pets. However, the systematic affinities of the genus and the validity of the included species have not been robustly explored. Differences in shell, operculum and radula characters support separation of Clea as presently defined into two distinct genera: Clea, for the type species Clea nigricans and its allies, and Anentome for Clea helena and allies. A five-gene mitochondrial (COI, 16S, 12S) and nuclear (H3, 28S) gene dataset confirms the placement of Anentome as a somewhat isolated offshoot of the family Nassariidae and sister to the estuarine Nassodonta. Anatomical data corroborate this grouping and, in conjunction with their phylogenetic placement, support their recognition as a new subfamily, the Anentominae. The assassin snail Anentome helena, a popular import through the aquarium trade so named for their voracious appetite for other snails, is found to comprise a complex of at least four species. None of these likely represents true Anentome helena described from Java, including a specimen purchased through the aquarium trade under this name in the US and one that was recently found introduced in Singapore, both of which were supported as conspecific with a species from Thailand. The introduction of Anentome “helena” through the aquarium trade constitutes a significant threat to native aquatic snail faunas which are often already highly imperiled. Comprehensive systematic revision of this previously unrecognized species complex is urgently needed to facilitate communication and manage this emerging threat.
Accessible surveys cited (9) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, BIOPAPUA, EXBODI, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MAINBAZA, PANGLAO 2004, Restricted, SANTO 2006
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Strong E.E., Puillandre N., Beu A.G., Castelin M. & Bouchet P. 2019. Frogs and tuns and tritons – A molecular phylogeny and revised family classification of the predatory gastropod superfamily Tonnoidea (Caenogastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 18-34. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.016
Abstract [+] [-]The Tonnoidea is a moderately diverse group of large, predatory gastropods with ∼360 valid species. Known for their ability to secrete sulfuric acid, they use it to prey on a diversity of invertebrates, primarily echinoderms. Tonnoideans currently are classified in seven accepted families: the comparatively well known, shallow water Bursidae, Cassidae, Personidae, Ranellidae, and Tonnidae, and the lesser-known, deep water Laubierinidae and Pisanianuridae. We assembled a mitochondrial and nuclear gene (COI, 16S, 12S, 28S) dataset for ∼80 species and 38 genera currently recognized as valid. Bayesian analysis of the concatenated dataset recovered a monophyletic Tonnoidea, with Ficus as its sister group. Unexpectedly, Thalassocyon, currently classified in the Ficidae, was nested within the ingroup as the sister group to Distorsionella. Among currently recognized families, Tonnidae, Cassidae, Bursidae and Personidae were supported as monophyletic but the Ranellidae and Ranellinae were not, with Cymatiinae, Ranella and Charonia supported as three unrelated clades. The Laubierinidae and Pisanianuridae together form a monophyletic group. Although not all currently accepted genera have been included in the analysis, the new phylogeny is sufficiently robust and stable to the inclusion/exclusion of nonconserved regions to establish a revised family-level classification with nine families: Bursidae, Cassidae, Charoniidae, Cymatiidae, Laubierinidae, Personidae, Ranellidae, Thalassocyonidae and Tonnidae. The results reveal that many genera as presently circumscribed are para- or polyphyletic and, in some cases support the rescue of several genus-group names from synonymy (Austrosassia, Austrotriton, Laminilabrum, Lampadopsis, Personella, Proxicharonia, Tritonoranella) or conversely, support their synonymization (Biplex with Gyrineum). Several species complexes are also revealed that merit further investigation (e.g., Personidae: Distorsio decipiens, D. reticularis; Bursidae: Bursa tuberosissima; Cassidae: Echinophoria wyvillei, Galeodea bituminata, and Semicassis bisulcata). Consequently, despite their teleplanic larvae, the apparently circumglobal distribution of some tonnoidean species is the result of excessive synonymy. The superfamily is estimated to have diverged during the early Jurassic (∼186 Ma), with most families originating during a narrow ∼20 My window in Albian-Aptian times as part of the Mesozoic Marine Revolution.
Accessible surveys cited (20) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, AURORA 2007, CONCALIS, EBISCO, GUYANE 2014, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, NORFOLK 2, Restricted, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, SALOMON 2, SANTO 2006, TAIWAN 2004, TERRASSES, Restricted, ZhongSha 2015
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Strong E.E. & Bouchet P. 2020. Hidden in plain sight: two co-occurring cryptic species of Supplanaxis in the Caribbean (Cerithioidea, Planaxidae). ZooKeys 991: 85-109. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.991.57521
Abstract [+] [-]The cerithioid Supplanaxis nucleus (Bruguière, 1789) is widespread in the Caribbean, where it lives in often dense aggregates on hard surfaces in the middle-high intertidal. Molecular evidence shows that it comprises two species that are in fact morphologically diagnosable. We fix the nomenclature of Supplanaxis nucleus by designating a sequenced neotype from Bruguière’s historical locality of Barbados, and identify the second, cryptic species as S. nancyae (Petuch, 2013). The two live syntopically across the Caribbean and form a closely related species group with the Panamic S. planicostatus (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825). Planaxis nucleola Mörch, 1876, described from St Croix, in the Virgin Islands, never again recorded in the literature but listed as a synonym of S. nucleus in taxonomic authority lists, is recognized as a valid species of Hinea Gray, 1847. Proplanaxis Thiele, 1929 and Supplanaxis Thiele, 1929, are synonyms and the latter is given precedence over the former.
Accessible surveys cited (1) [+] [-]
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Sumner-rooney L., Sigwart J.D., Mcafee J., Smith L. & Williams S.T. 2016. Repeated eye reduction events reveal multiple pathways to degeneration in a family of marine snails. Evolution 70(10): 2268-2295. DOI:10.1111/evo.13022
Abstract [+] [-]Eye reduction occurs in many troglobitic, fossorial, and deep-sea animals but there is no clear consensus on its evolutionary mechanism. Given the highly conserved and pleiotropic nature of many genes instrumental to eye development, degeneration might be expected to follow consistent evolutionary trajectories in closely related animals. We tested this in a comparative study of ocular anatomy in solariellid snails from deep and shallow marine habitats using morphological, histological, and tomographic techniques, contextualized phylogenetically. Of 67 species studied, 15 lack retinal pigmentation and at least seven have eyes enveloped by surrounding epithelium. Independent instances of reduction follow numerous different morphological trajectories. We estimate eye loss has evolved at least seven times within Solariellidae, in at least three different ways: characters such as pigmentation loss, obstruction of eye aperture, and “lens” degeneration can occur in any order. In one instance, two morphologically distinct reduction pathways appear within a single genus, Bathymophila. Even amongst closely related animals living at similar depths and presumably with similar selective pressures, the processes leading to eye loss have more evolutionary plasticity than previously realized. Although there is selective pressure driving eye reduction, it is clearly not morphologically or developmentally constrained as has been suggested by previous studies.
Accessible surveys cited (18) [+] [-]AURORA 2007, BIOPAPUA, BOA1, CONCALIS, EBISCO, EXBODI, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, NORFOLK 2, PANGLAO 2004, PANGLAO 2005, PAPUA NIUGINI, SALOMON 2, SANTO 2006, TAIWAN 2001, TARASOC, TERRASSES
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Taylor J.D. & Glover E.A. 2016. Lucinid bivalves of Guadeloupe: diversity and systematics in the context of the tropical Western Atlantic (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Zootaxa 4196(3): 301-380. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.1
Abstract [+] [-]Intensive sampling of molluscs from the intertidal to depths of 800 m around the islands of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles (KARUBENTHOS 2012, 2015) recovered 25 species of Lucinidae. All the Guadeloupe species are described and illustrated including details of larval shells and the taxonomy revised within the context of the wider western Atlantic fauna and recent classifications. Concurrent molecular analysis has helped separate frequently confounded species. ‘Myrtea’ pristiphora is placed in the Leucosphaerine genus Myrtina previously known from the Indo-West Pacific. A second western Atlantic species of Callucina, C. pauperatus previously known from the Pliocene of Jamaica is recognised from the southern Caribbean and off Brazil. The deeper water species ‘Myrteopis’ lens is placed in Afrolucina previously known from the eastern Atlantic. Lucinids commonly identified as Ctena orbiculata are shown to belong to two distinct species, C. orbiculata in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida and C. imbricatula in the Caribbean. Epicodakia is recognised for the first time in the western Atlantic with E. pectinata widely distributed across the region and E. filiata recorded from deeper water. Three species of Lucina are recognised, Lucina pensylvanica in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida and the similar Lucina roquesana from the Caribbean and Bahamas while the smaller L. aurantia has a wide distribution from central America to the Bahamas. A new species of Parvilucina, P. latens is described; this is similar to P. pectinella but has an internal ligament. The long problematic species ‘Codakia’ cubana is assigned to Ferrocina. A new genus, Guyanella is introduced for Parvilucina clenchi the smallest known lucinid. A critical reassessment of the lucinid fauna of the western Atlantic Ocean identifies 46 species for the region with 33 of these living at depths less than 200 m. Deeper-water habitats have been much less investigated except at sites of hydrocarbon seeps. Some species are widespread throught the whole region but others have more restricted ranges. Notable are species pairs, for example of Ctena, Lucina, Lucinisca and Parvilucina that are either largely Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico/Floridian in distribution. Although extralimital, two problematic species from the mid-south Atlantic island of St Helena are refigured and placed in Cavilinga.
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Taylor J.D., Glover E.A., Smith L., Ikebe C. & Williams S.T. 2016. New molecular phylogeny of Lucinidae: increased taxon base with focus on tropical Western Atlantic species (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Zootaxa 4196(3): 381-398. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.2
Abstract [+] [-]A new molecular phylogeny of the Lucinidae using 18S and 28S rRNA and cytochrome b genes includes many species from the tropical Western Atlantic as well as additional taxa from the Indo-West Pacific. This study provides a phylogenetic framework for a new taxonomy of tropical Western Atlantic lucinids. The analysis confirmed five major clades—Pegophyseminae, Leucosphaerinae, Myrteinae, Codakiinae and Lucininae, with Monitilorinae and Fimbriinae represented by single species. The Leucosphaerinae are expanded and include Callucina winckworthi and the W. Atlantic Myrtina pristiphora that groups with several Indo-West Pacific Myrtina species. Within the Codakiinae two abundant species of Ctena from the Western Atlantic with similar shells are discriminated as C. orbiculata and C. imbricatula, while in the Indo-West Pacific Ctena bella is a probable species complex. The Lucininae is the most species rich and disparate subfamily with several subclades apparent. Three species of Lucina are recognized in the W. Atlantic L. aurantia, L. pensylvanica and L. roquesana. Pleurolucina groups near to Cavilinga and Lucina, while Lucinisca muricata is more closely related to the E. Pacific L. fenestrata than to the Atlantic L. nassula. A new species of Parvilucina is identified from molecular analyses having been confounded with Parvilucina pectinata but differs in ligament structure. Also, the former Parvilucina clenchi is more distant and assigned to Guyanella.
Accessible surveys cited (10) [+] [-]ATIMO VATAE, BIOPAPUA, EXBODI, GUYANE 2014, INHACA 2011, KARUBENTHOS 2, KARUBENTHOS 2012, MADEEP, PANGLAO 2004, PAPUA NIUGINI
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Williams S.T., Kano Y., Warén A. & Herbert D.G. 2020. Marrying molecules and morphology: first steps towards a reevaluation of solariellid genera (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) in the light of molecular phylogenetic studies. Journal of Molluscan Studies 86(1): 1-26. DOI:10.1093/mollus/eyz038
Abstract [+] [-]The assignment of species to the vetigastropod genus Solariella Wood, 1842, and therefore the family Solariellidae Powell, 1951, is complicated by the fact that the type species (Solariella maculata Wood, 1842) is a fossil described from the Upper Pliocene. Assignment of species to genera has proved difficult in the past, and the type genus has sometimes acted as a ‘wastebasket’ for species that cannot easily be referred to another genus. In the light of a new systematic framework provided by two recent publications presenting the first molecular phylogenetic data for the group, we reassess the shell characters that are most useful for delimiting genera. Shell characters were previously thought to be of limited taxonomic value above the species level, but this is far from the case. Although overall shell shape is not a reliable character, our work shows that shell characters, along with radular and anatomical characters, are useful for assigning species to genera. Sculpture of the early teleoconch (the region immediately following the protoconch) and the columella are particularly useful characters that have not been used regularly in the past to distinguish genera. However, even with the combination of all morphological characters used in this study (shell, radular and eye), a few species are still difficult to assign to genera and in such cases molecular systematic data are essential. In the present study, we discuss 13 genera—12 of which were recovered as well-supported clades in recent molecular systematic studies—and provide morphological characters to distinguish them. We describe several new taxa: Chonospeira n. gen. (referred to as ‘clade B’ in previous molecular systematic studies), Phragmomphalina n. gen. (Bathymophila in part in molecular systematic studies) and Phragmomphalina vilvensi n. sp. (type species of Phragmomphalina n. gen.). We synonymize Hazuregyra Shikama, 1962 with Minolia A. Adams, 1860, Minolia subangulata Kuroda & Habe, 1952 with Minolia punctata A. Adams, 1860 and M. gemmulata Kuroda & Habe, 1971 with M. shimajiriensis (MacNeil, 1960). We also present the following new combinations: Bathymophila bairdii (Dall, 1889), B. dawsoni (Marshall, 1979), B. regalis (Marshall, 1999), B. wanganellica (Marshall, 1999), B. ziczac (Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971), Chonospeira nuda (Dall, 1896), C. iridescens (Habe, 1961), C. ostreion (Vilvens, 2009), C. strobilos (Vilvens, 2009), Elaphriella corona (Lee & Wu, 2001), E. diplax (Marshall, 1999), E. meridiana (Marshall, 1999), E. olivaceostrigata (Schepman, 1908), E. opalina (Shikama & Hayashi, 1977), Ilanga norfolkensis (Marshall, 1999), I. ptykte (Vilvens, 2009), I. zaccaloides (Vilvens, 2009), Minolia shimajiriensis (MacNeil, 1960), M. watanabei (Shikama, 1962), Phragmomphalina alabida (Marshall, 1979), P. diadema (Marshall, 1999), P. tenuiseptum (Marshall, 1999), Spectamen euteium (Vilvens, 2009), S. basilicum (Marshall, 1999), S. exiguum (Marshall, 1999) and S. flavidum (Marshall, 1999).
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Yang C.H., Sha Z., Chan T.Y. & Liu R. 2015. Molecular phylogeny of the deep-sea penaeid shrimp genus Parapenaeus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata). Zoologica Scripta 44(3): 312-323. DOI:10.1111/zsc.12097
Abstract [+] [-]The commercial deep-sea penaeid shrimp genus Parapenaeus contains 15 species, three subspecies and two forms in the Indo-West Pacific and the Atlantic. Novel nucleotide sequence data from five different genes (COI, 16S, 12S, NaK and PEPCK) were collected to estimate phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic status amongst all but one subspecies in this genus. The phylogenetic results only support two of the four species groups previously proposed for this genus and indicate an evolution direction of the genital organs from simple to complex. The present results suggest that Parapenaeus originated in the shallow waters of the West Pacific with subsequent migration to the deep sea and the Atlantic. The molecular data reveal that there was probably misidentification of females between Parapenaeus australiensis and Parapenaeus ruberoculatus, with females previously assigned as P. australiensis likely being the females of P. ruberoculatus, while material identified as P. australiensis forma nodosa being the true P. australiensis females. On the other hand, Parapenaeus longipes forma denticulata truly represents a variation of the same species, while the subspecies Parapenaeus fissuroides indicus warrants a specific rank.
Accessible surveys cited (7) [+] [-]
Associated collection codes: IU (Crustaceans)
List of documents
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- Restricted access (2)
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List of participants
By leg :
- Première partie (02/05/2012 - 28/05/2012)
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- Alvarez, Julia (Malacologie, Universidad Simon Bolivar)
- Barcode mollusques
- Antonioli, Arthur (Polyvalence, Institut Mediterranéen d'Océanologie)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Barazer, Jean-François (Pêche au chalut et à la drague, Genavir)
- Consultant
- Bouchet, Philippe (Malacologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Chef de mission
- Bourgeois, Mauricette (Malacologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Tri
- Buske, Yan (Plongée, Individuel)
- Collecte - Plongée - Photo
- Caballer, Manuel (Malacologie, Observatorio Ambiental Granadilla)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Charles, Laurent (Malacologie, Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de Bordeaux)
- Collecte - Tri
- Corbari, Laure (Carcinologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Collecte - Tri - Photo
- Dirberg, Guillaume (Géoréférencement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Gestion des données géographiques
- Ereskovsky, Alexander (Eponges, Institut Mediterranéen d'Océanologie)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Espinosa, Jose (Polyvalence, Instituto de Oceanologia)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Galindo, Lee Ann (Systématique moléculaire, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Barcode mollusques
- Gros, Olivier (Polyvalence, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Héros, Virginie (Malacologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Collecte - Tri
- Lambourdière, Josie (Systématique moléculaire, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Collecte - Tri
- Lamy, Dominique (Malacologie, Individuel)
- Collecte
- Le Gall, Line (Algologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Leblond, Alice (Valorisation scientifique, Parc national de la Guadeloupe)
- Logistique
- Maestrati, Philippe (Malacologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Collecte - Tri
- Manuel, Michaël (Cnidaires, Université Paris IV)
- Collecte
- MNHN,
- 02/05/2012 - 28/05/2012 Récolteur
- Moolenbeek, Robert (Malacologie, Individuel)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Netchy, Kris (Echinodermes, University of Florida)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Ortea, Jesus (Malacologie, Universidad de Oviedo)
- Tri
- Penisson, Rémy (Malacologie, Individuel)
- Collecte - Tri
- Plaçais, Danielle (Malacologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Tri
- Poupin, Joseph (Crustacés, Ecole Navale)
- Collecte - Tri - Photo
- Pruvost, Laurent (Pêche, Individuel)
- Collecte
- Puillandre, Nicolas (Systématique moléculaire, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Barcode mollusques
- Queinnec, Eric (Cnidaires, Université Paris IV)
- Collecte
- Recourt, Pierre (Malacologie, Individuel)
- Collecte - Tri
- Rosado, José (Malacologie, Individuel)
- Collecte
- Rousseau, Florence (Algologie, Université Paris IV)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Snyder, Martin (Malacologie, Individuel)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Soubzmaigne, Sébastien (Polyvalence, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Collecte - Tri
- Strong, Ellen (Malacologie, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
- Barcode mollusques
- Turpin, Yannis (Polyvalence, Parc naturel marin d'Iroise)
- Collecte - Plongée - Photo
- Utge, José (Systématique moléculaire, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Collecte - Plongée - Photo
- Vassard, Emmanuel (Polyvalence, Direction du Service de Soutien de la Flotte)
- Collecte - Plongée
- Warén, Anders (Malacologie, Swedish museum of Natural History)
- Tri
- POST CAMPAGNE ( - )
- Marani, Gilberto ( Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
- Numérisation
Stations map
GoogleEarth file (.kml)
List of stations
