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A new species of Glyphocrangon (Decapoda: Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae) from off the coast of western Mexico

Laboratorio de Invertebrados Bentónicos, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, P.O. Box 811 Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Crustacea Decapoda Caridea Glyphocrangonidae Glyphocrangon new species western Mexico

Abstract

A new species of Glyphocrangon has been collected during deep-water sampling off western Mexico, in the east Pacific. The series of specimens, including both males and females, was found between 780 and 1879 m depth. Glyphocrangon sp. nov. is close to G. sicaria Faxon, 1893 and G. vicaria Faxon, 1896, both occurring in the east Pacific. It differs from both species, however, by the absence of tubercles between the lateral carinae, the presence of a large tooth at the anterior end of the second anterior lateral carina, the size of the eye (proportionally smaller in G. vicaria), and the presence of two large rostral lateral teeth (one obsolete in G. sicaria). The new species is, however, strikingly similar to G. fimbriata Komai & Takeuchi, 1994, from the Mid-Pacific Mountains. It differs from the later species by the shape of the male endopod of first pleopod, the relative size and spination of the appendices interna and masculina, the presence of a large lateral tooth on pleura of abdominal somites 3–5, and the absence of curved setae on distal part of the dactyl of pereiopods 3–5.

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