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Published: 2010-02-26
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A new vent shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alvinocarididae) from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

 


P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimov Prospekt 36, Moscow, 117997 Russia
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimov Prospekt 36, Moscow, 117997 Russia
Crustacea Decapoda Caridea Alvinocarididae vent shrimps Mid-Atlantic Ridge new species

Abstract

Opaepele vavilovi sp. nov., family Alvinocarididae, is described from the Broken Spur vent site (26 o 09'N, 44 o 50'W) on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. An emended diagnosis for Opaepele is provided, along with characters distinguishing new species from other species of the genus. All known vent species of Alvinocarididae from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are listed, and key to the genus Opaepele is provided. Despite intensive sampling of this vent field for several decades, the new species was only discovered in 2005, highlighting our still fragmentary knowledge of hydrothermal vent biodiversity.

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