A new species of Melita Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda: Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from Patos Lagoon, southern Brazil

Senna, André R.; Sorrentino, Rayane; Machado, Angelina N. S.; Torrent, Paula

Abstract

A new species of the family Melitidae Bousfield, 1973, Melita petronioi sp. nov., is described with material collected from Patos Lagoon, coast of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. The new species is the unique species of Melita Leach, 1814 in Brazilian waters with urosomites 1 and 2 lacking spines, but urosomite 2 bearing two sets of dorsal stout setae, and the uropod 3 with the outer ramus 2-articulate. It is the first Melita species recorded to the southern region of the country.

Amphipod; melitid; Rio Grande do Sul; taxonomy

Azevedo, N.; Cortes, B.A. and Sá, M.R. 2008. Um caminho para a ciência: a trajetória da botânica Leda Dau. História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, 15 (suplemento):209-229.
Barnard, J.L. 1970. Sublittoral Gammaridea (Amphipoda) of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 34:1-286.
Barnard, J.L. 1972a. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia. Part I. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 103:1-333.
Barnard, J.L. 1972b. The Marine fauna of New Zealand. Algae living littoral Gammaridea (Crustacea Ampbpoda). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoirs, 62:1-216.
Coleman, C.O. 2003. "Digital inking": How to make perfect line drawings on computers. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, 3(14):1-14.
Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus Crustaceorum. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science, 2:201-220.
Fernandez-Leborans, G.; Chatterjee, T. and Grego, M. 2012. New records of epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora) on Harpacticoida (Copepoda, Crustacea) from the Bay of Piran (Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 53(1):53-63.
Heller, C. 1866. Beiträge zur näheren Kenntnis der Amphipoden des Adriatischen Meeres. Denkschriften / Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 26:1-62.
Jarret, N.E. and Bousfield, E.L. 1996. The amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: family Melitidae. Part I. The Melita group: systematic and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica, 2(2):3-74.
Karaman, G.S. 1978. On two Melita species (Fam. Gammaridae) from the Mediterranean Sea, M. bulla n. sp. and M. valesi S. Kar. 1955. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 5:221-237.
Karaman, G.S. 1981. Redescription of Melita planaterga Kunkel, 1910 from Bermuda with revision of the genera Melita Leach and Abludomelita n. gen. Poljoprivreda I Sumarstvo, Titograd, 27(1):29-50.
Karaman, G.S. 1987. A new species of genus Melita Leach (Fam. Melitidae) from Bermuda and Fiji Islands. Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda, 173. Glasnik Prirodnjackog Muzeja u Beogradu, B 42:19-35.
Karaman, S. 1955. Uber einige Amphipoden des Grundwassers der Jugoslavischen Meereskuste. Acta Musei Macedonici Scientiarum Naturalium, 2:223-242.
Labay, V.S. 2003. A new species of Melita Leach (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from oligosaline waters of Russian Far East. Zootaxa, 356:1-8.
Leach, W.E. 1814. Crustaceology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 7:383-437.
Ledoyer, M. 1979. Expédition Rumphius II (1975): Crustacés parasites, commensaux, etc. In: T. Monod and R. Serène (eds), Crustaces amphipodes gammariens. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, série 4, 1:137-181.
Ledoyer, M. 1982. Crustacés amphipodes gammariens familles des Acanthonotozomatidae à Gammaridae. Faune de Madagascar, 59(1):1-598.
Leite, F.P.P., Tararam, A.S. and Wakabara, Y. 1980. Composição de distribuição da fauna Gammaridea na região da Enseada da Fortaleza-Ubatuba, Estado de São Paulo. Boletim do Instituto Oceanográfico, 29(2):297-299.
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Lowry, J.K. and Springthorpe, R.T. 2005. New and little-known melitid amphipods from Australian waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 57(2):237-302.
Lowry, J.K. and Springthorpe, R.T. 2009. Melitidae, the Melita group. p. 718-735. In: J.K. Lowry and A.A. Myers (eds), Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa, 2260:1-930.
Montagu, G. 1804. Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 7:61-85, pls. 6-7.
Oliveira, L.P.H. 1953. Crustacea Amphipoda do Rio de Janeiro. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 51:289-376.
Poore, A.G.B. and Lowry, J.K. 1997. New ampithoid amphipods from Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 11:897-941.
Ruffo, S. 1958. Amphipodes terrestres et des eaux continentales de Madagascar, des Comores et de la Reunion. Mémoires de l'Institute Scientifique de Madagascar, Série A, 12:35-66.
Sawicki, T.R..; Holsinger, J.R. and Iliffe, T.M. 2005. New species of amphipod crustaceans in the genera Tegano and Melita (Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from subterranean groundwaters in Guam, Palau, and the Philippines. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 25(1):49-74.
Schellenberg, A. 1931. Amphipoden der Sunda-Expeditionen Thienemann und Rensch. Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie, Supplement 8:493-511.
Senna, A.R. and Serejo, C.S. 2012. A new genus and species of Melitidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hadzioidea) from Brazilian waters. Zootaxa, 3433:60-68.
Senna, A.R. and Serejo, C.S. in press A new species and first record of the genus Nuuanu (Amphipoda: Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from Brazilian waters. Zoosystematics and Evolution
Sheridan, P.F. 1980. Three new species of Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda), with notes on the amphipod fauna of the Apalachicola estuary of northwest Florida. Northeast Gulf Science, 3(2):60-73.
Stebbing, T.R.R. 1904. Gregarious Crustacea of Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 2:1-29.
Stephensen, K.H. 1944. Some Japanese Amphipods. Videnskabelige Meddelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Kobenhavn, 108:25-88.
Wakabara, Y.; Tararam, A.S.; Valério-Berardo, M.T. and Duleba, W. 1991. Gammaridean and Caprellidean fauna from Brazil. Hydrobiologia, 223:69-77.
Watling, L. 1989. A classification of crustacean setae based on the homology concept. p. 15-26. In: B.E. Felgenhauer, A.B. Thistle and L. Watling (eds), Crustacean Issues. Functional Morphology of Feeding and Grooming in Crustacea, Vol. 6. Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema.
Yamato, S. 1990. Two new species of the genus Melita (Custacea: Amphipoda) from shallow waters of the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biology Laboratory, 34(4/6):149-165.
Zeidler, W. 1988 (1989). A new species of Melita (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from northern New South Wales with a note on the genus Abludomelita Karaman, 1981. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of the New South Wales, 110(4):327-338.

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A new species of Melita Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda: Hadzioidea: Melitidae) from Patos Lagoon, southern Brazil

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