Hemiaegina minuta Mayer 1890

• Main Authors: Paz-Ríos, Carlos E., Guerra-García, José M., Ardisson, Pedro-Luis
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• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Caprellidae; Hemiaegina; Hemiaegina minuta; Pacific; Indian; Myers; Alvarez; Rodriguez; Lowry; Ortiz; Diaz; Dougherty; Escobar; Lazo; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5195984; https://zenodo.org/record/5195984

Hemiaegina minuta Mayer, 1890 (Figure 9) Hemiaegina minuta Mayer, 1890: 40, pl. 1, figs 25–27, pl. 3 figs 32–35, pl. 5, figs 52, 53, pl. 6, figs 13, 33, 34, pl. 7, fig. 4. McCain, 1968: 61–64, figs 29, 30. McCain and Steinberg, 1970: 51. Gable and Lazo-Wasem, 1987: 637. Serejo, 1997: 630–632, fig. 1. Ortiz et al., 2002, fig. 32. Guerra-García, 2003c: 6–7, fig. 3; 2003d: 105–106, fig. 10. Foster, Thomas, et al., 2004: 161, 163, fig. 3. Guerra-García, 2004: 39–40, fig. 32. Diaz et al., 2005: 3, 5–6, 18, fig. 9. Krapp-Schickel and Guerra-García, 2005: 50–51, fig. 3. Guerra-García, 2006: 443, fig. 43. Guerra-García, Krapp-Schickel, et al., 2006: 171–174, figs 14–16. Winfield, Escobar-Briones, et al., 2007: 47, fig. 15. Guerra-García and Lowry, 2009: 295–297, fig. 3. Guerra-García et al., 2010: 303–304, fig. 6. Hemiaegina quadripunctata Sundara Raj, 1927: 126, pl. 8. Hemiaegina costai Quitete, 1972: 165–168, pls. 1, 2. Material examined Station 11, 17 females (13 ovigerous), CYMX-12- CY. Station 12, six females (four ovigerous), CYMX-13- CY. Station 29, two males, four females (one female from this station used for figure), CYMX-51- CY. Station 30, one male, CYMX-52- CY (used for figure). Type locality Off Amoy, China. Distribution Widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters worldwide (McCain 1968; Guerra-García and Lowry 2009; Guerra-García et al. 2010): Indo-Pacific; West and East Atlantic; Mediterranean. Records in the Gulf of Mexico MEX: Campeche Sound (Winfield et al. 2006); Alacranes Reef; Cabo Catoche (present study). USA: Port Aransas (Steinberg and Dougherty 1957); off Pensacola– 29°44′ N, 88°25.5′ W; Loggerhead Key (McCain 1968); Biloxi Bay (Pederson and Peterson 2002); St Joseph Bay (Foster, Thomas, et al. 2004). Habitat This species has been found on many different substrata (Guerra-García and Lowry 2009; Guerra-García et al. 2010): pelagic Sargassum sp., plankton tows, on the bivalve Arca zebra , in green, brown and red algae, sponges, tunicates, hydroids, seagrasses, dead corals encrusted with algal turf, and under small boulders. The depth range reported is shallow water extending to 354 m (Winfield et al. 2006; Winfield and Escobar-Briones 2008; LeCroy et al. 2009). Remarks The genus is currently monotypic. Hemiaegina minuta is easily identified by the following characteristics: hexagonal outline of the pereonites in dorsal view, third article of antenna 1 short, antenna 2 without swimming setae, gnathopod 1 propodus with a round projection proximally, and abdomen with a distinctive pair of twoarticulate appendages (McCain 1968; Guerra-García, Krapp-Schickel, et al. 2006). : Published as part of Paz-Ríos, Carlos E., Guerra-García, José M. & Ardisson, Pedro-Luis, 2014, REVIEW ARTICLE Caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Gulf of Mexico, with observations on Deutella mayeri, redescription of Metaprotella hummelincki, a taxonomic key and zoogeographical comments, pp. 2517-2578 in Journal of Natural History 48 (41 - 42) on pages 2539-2540, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.931481, http://zenodo.org/record/5194444 : {"references": ["Mayer P. 1890. Die Caprelliden des Golfes von Neapel under angrenenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Nachtrag zur Monographie derselben. 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