Aurivillialepas bocquetae

• Main Author: Young, Paulo S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2001
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Pedunculata; Calanticidae; Aurivillialepas; Aurivillialepas bocquetae; New Zealand; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4885233; https://zenodo.org/record/4885233

Aurivillialepas bocquetae (Newman, 1980) (Figs 14; 15) Calantica calyculus – Bocquet-Védrine 1971: 761, figs 1-3 [non Aurivillialepas calyculus (Aurivillius, 1898)]. Scillaelepas ( Aurivillialepas ) bocquetae Newman, 1980: 387, figs 7, 8. MATERIALEXAMINED. — SEAMOUNT 2, stn DW 225, 32°08.59’N, 28°10.73’W, 1030 m to 32°08.92’N, 28°10.50’W, 1035 m, 1 specimen, tl (cl) 9.0 (6.2) mm (MNHN Ci 2847). — Stn DW 256, 34°06.21’N, 30°16.03’W, 340 m to 34°06.47’N, 30°16.21’W, 345 m, 2 specimens, tl (cl) 5.2 (3.5) to 8.9 (6.2) mm (MNHN Ci 2848, MNRJ 13897). — Stn CP 257, 34°04.51’N, 30°15.05’W, 338 m to 34°03.21’N, 30°14.25’W, 330 m, 2 specimens, tl (cl) 9.9 (6.9) to 13.2 (9.3) mm (MNHN Ci 2846, MNRJ 13898). REMARKS The specimens ranged from 5 to 13 mm in length and the presence of males varied between the specimens. The smallest one did not have a male, probably because this specimen had not yet developed the space between the rostrum and subrostrum where the male cyprids attach nor- mally. The larger specimens had one or two males in the rostral position, but one of them did not have a male. I infer the life time of the males is significatively less than the females, therefore, the females acquire several male cyprids during their life. The relative proportions of the capitulum of Aurivillialepas bocquetae change during growth. The smaller specimens are more slender with the height about twice the width, changing to about 1.5 times in the grown specimens. Aurivillialepas bocquetae was recorded only from off France, between 44°- 48°N and 7°- 8°W and from 340 to 519 m (Newman 1980). These new records extend its distribution to the Azores region. : Published as part of Young, Paulo S., 2001, Deep-sea Cirripedia Thoracica (Crustacea) from the northeastern Atlantic collected by French expeditions, pp. 705-756 in Zoosystema 23 (4) on pages 724-726, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689055 : {"references": ["NEWMAN W. A. 1980. - A review of extant Scillaelepas (Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) including recognition of new species from the North Atlantic, West Indies and New Zealand. Tethys 9 (4): 379 - 398.", "AURIVILLIUS C. W. S. 1898. - Cirrhipedes nouveaux provenant des Campagnes Scientifiques de S. A. S. le Prince de Monaco. Bulletin de la Societe zoologique de France 23: 189 - 198."]}