Cyclaspis sp. 1

Rodríguez-Uribe, María C., Jarquín-González, Jani, Salazar-Silva, Patricia, Chávez-Dagostino, Rosa M. & Balzaretti Merino, Natalia, 2024, Cumaceans (Crustacea, Peracarida) associated with shallow-water hydrothermal vents at Banderas Bay, Mexico, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 139801-e 139801 : e139801-

Cyclaspis sp. 1

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: María C. Rodríguez-Uribe, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Natalia Balzaretti Merino; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3913556F-A19A-5CA0-AA23-EE849AB7E96A; Taxon: class: Malacostraca; order: Cumacea ; family: Bodotriidae ; genus: Cyclaspis ; taxonRank: genus; Location: higherGeography: Mexican Central Pacific; continent: American; waterBody: Banderas Bay; country: Mexico; stateProvince: Nayarit; locality: shallow-water hydrothermal vents of Punta Mita ; verbatimDepth: 10 m; verbatimCoordinateSystem: 20°44’54.9”N 105°28’38.4”W; Event: year: 2017; month: 11; day: 17; habitat: in fine sand

Description

The carapace is shorter than the abdomen and longer than the pereon; the abdomen is slightly longer than the carapace and pereon together. Carapace with anterior transverse ridges and several mid-posterior ridges; with two teeth on the mid-dorsal line. With short branchial siphons. Antennal notch as a subacute incision. The frontal lobe is about 1 / 4 of the carapace length. With ocular pigment. Pereonite 2 narrowing to other pereonites. Pereonite 4 overriding pereonite 5. Pereopod 2 with ischium. Pleonites rounded. Pleonite 6 is shorter than the peduncle of the uropod. With five pairs of pereopods. Uropodal peduncle longer than rami. Uropodal endopod uni-articulated (Fig. 2 A).

Figures

Figure 2. Representative cumacean morphospecies of each family. A-C Bodotriidae: Cyclaspis sp. 1 (A); Cyclaspis sp. 2 (B); Pseudoleptocuma sp. 1 (C); D-F Diastylidae: Diastylis sp. 1 (D); Oxyurostylis sp. 1, male (E); Oxyurostylis sp. 1, female; G Pseudocumatidae: Pseudocuma sp. 1 (G).