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Issue: Vol. 4418 No. 5: 10 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.6
Page range: 493–498
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Pasiphaea Savigny, 1816 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pasiphaeidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

Setor de Carcinologia, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão s/n, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Laboratório de Carcinologia, Museu de Oceanografia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Av. Arquitetura, s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife – PE.
Setor de Carcinologia, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão s/n, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil Fernando de Noronha Archipelago deep-sea shrimp taxonomy ABRACOS Program Crustacea

Abstract

The genus Pasiphaea Savigny, 1816 (Caridea: Pasiphaeidae) includes 71 species, of which vast majority inhabit in the meso or bathypelagic zones in the world oceans. A new species is described herein, sampled during the project "ABRACOS 2" (Acoustic along the BRazilian COast) nearby the Rocas Atoll and Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, in Brazilian waters. Pasiphaea antea n. sp. appears close to Pasiphaea dorsolineatus Komai & Chan, 2012 described from off Hawaii, but is distinguished from the latter by the different shape of the rostrum, the mid-dorsal line of the carapace sharply carinate in the anterior half, and the possession of more numerous spiniform setae on the meri of the pereopods 1 and 2. This is the third species known from the southwestern Atlantic.

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