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Issue: Vol. 5613 No. 1: 26 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.7
Page range: 153-164
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The family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 (Crustacea, Peracarida) in tropical America with the description of a new species

Laboratorio de Crustáceos; Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Avenida de Los Barrios 1; Los Reyes Iztacala; Tlalnepantla; Estado de México; C.P. 54090; México.
Federación de Sociedades Cooperativas Pesqueras Zona Centro de Baja California Sur; Melchor Ocampo; e/ Durango y Chiapas; No.1637
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste. Km. 1 Carretera a San Juan de La Costa; “EL COMITAN”. La Paz; Baja California Sur; México. C.P. 23205.
Crustacea Taxonomy Amphipoda Bateidae dichotomic key distribution new species

Abstract

The tropical American family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 is only composed by the genus Batea Müller, 1865. This genus includes 14 species of which 7 are distributed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Brazil and the Northwestern Atlantic. The rest 6 are distributed in the Pacific, mainly in Baja California and the Gulf of California. Only B. catharinensis Müller, 1865, has a distribution on both sides of America. These amphipods are easily recognized due to their peculiar degraded gnathopod 1 that is hidden by coxa 2. A new species of Batea collected in the Gulf of California is described and fully illustrated. For the first time, a dichotomous key is provided for the classification of the now 15 known species. A chronologically ordered table with the authors and years of the main papers published related to the general distribution of these species is also presented.

 

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How to Cite

Ortiz, M., Capetillo, N. & Lopeztegui, A. (2025) The family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 (Crustacea, Peracarida) in tropical America with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 5613 (1), 153–164. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.7