ABSTRACT
Three new species of the genus Cleantiodes are described from Tamandaré Bay, Pernambuco, Brazil. They were collected with light traps near a reef area of the Marine Protected Area ‘Costa dos Corais’. Cleantioides garciachartoni sp. nov., C. pandemus sp. nov. and C. tamandarensis sp. nov. are distinguished from their congeners mainly by the shape of the pleotelson and the ornamentation of the pereopods. The genus Cleantioides is recorded for the first time from the south-western Atlantic, while the family Holognathidae is recorded for the first time from the Brazilian coast.
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Acknowledgements
The first author thanks the Conselho de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for the sandwich grant to AON according to the Institutional Internationalization Program (PrInt UFPE/Capes). DLA thanks Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE) for the research grant. We acknowledge the financial support of the project Ciência do Mar 2 (88882.158713/2014-01), the Recifes Costeiros Project, SOS Mata Atlantica and Toyota Foundation for financial support. We also thank the Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação da Biodiversidade Marinha do Nordeste (CEPENE)/ ICMBIO for the lab facilities and support. We thank the Brazilian Institute of Biodiversity for invaluable support during data collection and processing, as well as the team at Tamandare, particularly Beatrice Padovani Ferreira, Sérgio Rezende, Mauro Maida and Henrique Grande, for support and help in the field. This is a contribution from PELD‐CNPq 441632/2016‐5/PELD‐TAMS.
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