Puriana variabilis Chukewiski & Purper, 1985

Luz, Nathália Carvalho Da & Coimbra, João Carlos, 2022, Ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) of the Vitoria-Trindade Chain, Southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 5188 (4), pp. 301-329 : 320-323

Puriana variabilis Chukewiski & Purper, 1985

Fig. 5 : 20–21

1985 Puriana variabilis Chukewiski & Purper , p. 314, pl. 2–6.

1992 Puriana variabilis Chukewiski & Purper. Coimbra et al. , pl. 2, fig. 10, tabs. 1–4.

1999a Puriana variabilis Chukewiski & Purper. Coimbra et al. , p. 374, pl. 3, fig. 8; p. 372, tab. 1.

2004 Puriana variabilis Chukewiski & Purper. Coimbra et al. , p. 115, pl. 2, figs. 9–10.

2020 Puriana variabilis Chukewiski & Purper. Machado et al. , p. 10, fig. 7M; p. 16, tab. 1.

PRÍINCIPE

Figured specimens. MP-O-2864, RV, length: 0.521 mm, height: 0.276 mm; MP-O-2865, LV, length: 0.529 mm, height: 0.280 mm.

Locality. Trindade Island , site Lixo Bay, Sample M17022 N.

Material. Dead assemblage: 7 RV, 9 LV, 42 C, and 2 juveniles . Living assemblage: 4 adults.

Stratigraphic range. Holocene.

Occurrence and distribution. In the study area, the species occurs in Trindade Island in the following localities: Príncipe Beach, Lixo Bay, Racha Island, Orelhas Bay, North Tip, and Andradas Beach ( Tab. 3 ). It also occurs in other Brazilian territorial waters in the Northern, Northeastern and Eastern shelves, and Tamandaré Bay (see references in the synonymy list).

Figures

FIGURE 5. 1–2: Auradilus convolutus. 1) MP-O-2849, RV; 2) MP-O-2850, LV. 3–4: Caudites exmouthensis. 3) MP-O-2851, RV; 4) MP-O-2851, LV. 5–6: Caudites obliquecostatus. 5) MP-O-2852, RV; 6) MP-O-2853, LV. 7–8: Caudites seminudus. 7) MP-O-2854, RV; 8) MP-O-2855, LV. 9) Coquimba cf. C. punctata, MP-O-2858, RV. 10–11: Cornucoquimba decorata. 10) MP-O-2856, RV; 11) MP-O-2856, LV. 12–13: Cornucoquimba nana. 12) MP-O-2857, RV; 13) MP-O-2857, LV. 14– 15: Neocaudites subimpressus. 14) MP-O-2859, carapace, juvenile, RV; 15) MP-O-2859, carapace, juvenile, LV. 16–17: Neohornibrookella trindadensis. 16) MP-O-2860, RV; 17) MP-O-2861, LV. 18–19: Australimoosella polypleuron. 18) MP-O- 2862, carapace, A-1, RV; 19) MP-O-2863, A-1, LV. 20–21: Puriana variabilis. 20) MP-O-2864, RV; 21) MP-O-2865, LV. 22) Polycope sp. 1, MP-O-2866, juvenile, RV. 23) Polycope sp. 2, MP-O-2867, juvenile, LV. Scale bar: 100 µm.