Caprella penantis Leach 1814

• Main Authors: Cházaro-Olvera, Sergio, Winfield, Ignacio, Ortiz, Manuel, Álvarez, Fernando
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2002
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Caprellidae; Caprella; Caprella penantis; Pacific; New Zealand; Mueller; Ortiz; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5685508; https://zenodo.org/record/5685508

Caprella penantis (Leach, 1814) Material examined: CNCR­ 20393; number of specimens: 2; CV station; collection date: 01/08/ 98. Type­locality : Devonshire coast, England. Distribution : This species has been reported in British Islands, France, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, from Nova Scotia to Georgia, Gulf of Mexico (Caine, 1983; McCain, 1968; Duffy, 1990), Brazil (Mittman & Müeller, 1998), California, Hawaii, Japan, Australia and New Zealand (McCain, 1968; Masakazu, 1999). Range extension : Caprella penantis has previously only been reported from Texas and Florida in the Gulf of Mexico (McCain, 1968; Caine, 1983). The record for this species at CV inlet extends its range within the Gulf to Veracruz State, Mexico. Remarks : This species occurs in horny corals, lagoon­estuarine systems, sandy beaches, Sargasssum beds and epiphytic hydroids (Masakazu, 1999). They feed by scraping on large algae which have filamentous or long thalli (Takeuchi & Hirano, 1996). The salinity and temperature measured at the collection site in this study were 19 to 27 %o and 28 to 29 °C, respectively. : Published as part of Cházaro-Olvera, Sergio, Winfield, Ignacio, Ortiz, Manuel & Álvarez, Fernando, 2002, Peracarid crustaceans from three inlets in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico: new records and range extensions, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 123 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155951 : {"references": ["Caine, E. A. (1983) Community interactions of Caprella penantis Leach (Crustacea: Amphipoda) on sea whips. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 3 (4), 497 - 504.", "McCain; J. C. (1968) The Caprellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Western North Atlantic. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 278, 1 - 147.", "Duffy, J. E. (1990) Amphipods on seaweeds: Partners or pests? Oecologia, 83 (2), 267 - 276.", "Mittman, J. & Mueller, Y. M. R. (1998) Contribution to the knowledge of Caprella penantis (Leach) biology (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Anhatomirim Island, Santa Catarina. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15 (1), 95 - 100.", "Masakazu, A. (1999) Morphological characteristics of young, maternal care behavior and microhabitat use by caprellid amphipods. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 79 (4), 629 - 638.", "Takeuchi, I. & Hirano, R. (1996) Clinging behavior of the epifaunal caprellids (Amphipoda) inhabiting the Sargassum zone on the Pacific coast of Japan, with its evolutionary implications. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 15 (3), 481 - 492."]}