A new ascidian-dwelling species of Leucothoe Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda: Leucothoidae) from Ilha Grande Bay, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

ABSTRACT

The Ilha Grande Bay is considered an area of extreme biological importance for the conservation of Brazilian biodiversity. While monitoring the macroinvertebrate ascidian-dwellers around Ilha Grande Bay, an undescribed commensal species of the amphipod family Leucothoidae was discovered. In this paper, we describe the new species of Leucothoe, associated with the ascidiacean Phallusia nigra.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5F1F321C-D4B7-4C2D-A91B-AFB18E54C5E0

KEYWORDS:

• Taxonomy
• biodiversity
• Ponta Leste
• Crustacea
• association
• Phallusia nigra

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) and by providing scholarship to BSR (E-26/202.251/2016) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001 for scholarship to LFA. ARS and LFS are also supported by PROCIENCIA (UERJ). Research authorizations from Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio-SisBio #25024) and Instituto Estadual do Ambiente (INEA #057/2011).

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the FAPERJ under Grants numbers to LFS [E-26/111.392/2014] and ARS [E-26/202.768/2019].