New records of Mysida (Crustacea: Peracarida) from shallow waters of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela

Abstract

As for other crustacean peracarid taxa (i.e. amphipods, cumaceans, isopods), the mysid fauna of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela remains poorly known. Our study was based on the examination of 111 specimens collected at seven shallow-water marine localities in the Golfo Triste. A total of five genera and five species [Anchialina typica (Krøyer), Bowmaniella dissimilis (Coifmann), Siriella chierchiae Coifmann, Heteromysis guitarti Bãcescu and Parvimysis bahamensis Brattegard] were collected from 25 samples taken between 2000 and 2002. Two species reported here (Anchialina typica and Parvimysis bahamensis) are new records for the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and constitute range extensions for the south Caribbean Sea coast.

Keywords:

• Caribbean Sea
• Mysida
• new records
• Peracarida
• Venezuela

Published in collaboration with the University of Bergen and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Published in collaboration with the University of Bergen and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the Dirección de Desarrollo Profesoral – Simon Bolivar University, and by a grant from FONACIT – Morrocoy National Park Agenda (96001837-V) to Patricia Miloslavich. We thank Elizabeth Huck for her assistance in field samplings and Maria Mercedes Castillo for reviewing the final English version of the manuscript.

Notes

Published in collaboration with the University of Bergen and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark