Caprella equilibra Say 1818

• Main Authors: Zeina, Amr F., Guerra, José M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Caprellidae; Caprella; Caprella equilibra; Pacific; Indian; Chevreux; Diaz; Lazo; Asencio; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5195994; https://zenodo.org/record/5195994

Caprella equilibra Say, 1818 Caprella equilibra Say, 1818: 391 –392; McCain, 1968: 25, figs. 12, 13; McCain & Steinberg, 1970: 19; Cavedini, 1982: 500; Lazo-Wasem & Gable, 1987: 335–336, fig. 10; Krapp-Shickel, 1993: 782 –783, fig. 533; Díaz et al ., 2005: 3 –4. fig. 4; Guerra-García & Ros, 2012: 76–78, fig. 2; Paz-Ríos et al ., 2014: 2524 –2526, fig. 2; Sánchez-Moyano et al ., 2015: 84 –89, figs. 3–5. Caprella aequilibra Mayer, 1882: 45, pl. 1, fig. 7; pl. 2, figs. 1–11; pl. 4, figs. 20–25; pl. 5, figs. 16–18; Chevreux & Fage, 1925: 455, fig. 433 (See a detailed complete list of synonymies in McCain & Steinberg, 1970) Remarks. No specimens of Caprella equilibra have been found or examined during the present study. Schellenberg (1928) recorded the species from Port Said (Mediterranean side at the entrance of the Canal). Recently, studies on the fouling community in the Suez Canal by Emara & Belal (2004) reported the presence of Caprella equilibra in Bitter Lake and Lake Timsah. Future studies are necessary to confirm if the species is also distributed along the Red Sea or if it is restricted to the Canal. Distribution. Globally distributed: Mediterranean, Black Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean (see McCain, 1968 and McCain & Steinberg, 1970 for details). Takeuchi & Sawamoto (1998) found C. equilibra as abundant in plankton samples. We have also observed for this species a great ability to disperse in the water column and colonize buoys and fouling structures. This could explain its wide distribution. : Published as part of Zeina, Amr F. & Guerra, José M., 2016, Caprellidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from the Red Sea and Suez Canal, with the redescription of Metaprotella africana and Paradeutella multispinosa, pp. 227-253 in Zootaxa 4098 (2) on pages 232-233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/260684 : {"references": ["Say, T. (1818) An account of the Crustacea of the United States, Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1 (2), 374 - 401.", "McCain, J. C. (1968) The Caprellidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the western north Atlantic. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 278, 1 - 116. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.278", "McCain, J. C. & Steinberg, J. E. (1970) Amphipoda I. Caprellidea I. Fam. Caprellidae. In: Gruner, H. E. & Holthuis, L. B. (Eds.), Crustaceorum Catalogus, Pars 2: Dr. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 1 - 78.", "Cavedini, P. (1982) Contributo alla conoscenza dei Caprellidi del Mediterraneo. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 8, 493 - 531.", "Krapp-Schickel, T. (1993) Suborder Caprellidea. In: Ruffo, S. (Eds), The Amphipoda of the Mediterranean. Me\u00b4moires de l'Institut Oceanographique, Monaco, 13 (3), pp 773 - 809.", "Diaz Y. J., Guerra-Garcia, J. M. & Martin, A. (2005) Caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from shallow Waters of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. Organisms, Diversity and evolution, Electronic Supplement, 10, 1 - 25. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ode. 2004.11.010", "Paz-Rios, C. E., Guerra-Garcia, J. M. & Ardisson, P. (2014) Caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Gulf of Mexico, with observations on Deutella mayeri, redescrption of Metaprotella hummelincki, a taxonomic key and zoogeographical comments. Journal of Natural History, 48, 2517 - 2578. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2014.931481", "Sanchez-Moyano, J. E., Garcia-Asencio, I., & Guerra-Garcia, J. M. (2015) Littoral caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Mexican Central Pacific coast, with the description of four new species. Journal of Natural History, 49, 77 - 127. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2014.937366", "Mayer, P. (1882) Monographie: Caprelliden. Fauna Flora Golf Neapel, 6, 1 - 201.", "Chevreux, E. & Fage, L. (1925) Amphipodes Faune Fr., 9, 488 pp.", "Takeuchi, I. & Sawamoto, S. (1998) Distribution of caprellids amphipods (Crustacea) in the western North Pacific based on the CSK International Zooplankton Collection. Plankton Biology and Ecology, 45, 225 - 230."]}