Caprella andreae Mayer 1890
- 1. Laboratorio de Bentos, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Cinvestav, Merida, Mexico;
- 2. Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, España
Description
Caprella andreae Mayer, 1890
Caprella acutifrons f. Andreae Mayer, 1890: 51, 55–56, pl. 2, fig. 38, pl. 4, figs 56, 70, 71. Chevreux and Fage, 1925: 452, fig. 430a.
Caprella andreae McCain, 1968: 19–22, figs 8, 9. McCain and Steinberg, 1970; Cavedini, 1982; Krapp-Schickel, 1993: 777–778, fig. 330. Aoki and Kikuchi, 1995: 54–58, figs 1, 2. Ortiz et al., 2002, fig. 18. Foster, Thomas, et al., 2004: 162, 171, fig. 9.
Type localityOffshore New Jersey, Atlantic coast of USA (38°10′ N, 64°20′ W).
DistributionNortheastern Atlantic; Mediterranean; Western Atlantic; Hawaii; Japan (McCain 1968; Krapp-Schickel 1993; Minchin and Colmes 1993; Spivak and Bass 1999).
Records in the Gulf of MexicoCUB: La Havana (McCain 1968). USA: Key West (McCain 1968); Padre Island (Shirley 1974).
HabitatCaprella andreae frequently occurs on floating objects (e.g. buoys, driftwoods) and on the carapace of the sea turtles Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas (Shirley 1974; Caine 1986; Aoki and Kikuchi 1995; Pfaller et al. 2008; Sezgin et al. 2009; Cabezas, Navarro-Barranco, et al. 2013), where it seems to be consumed incidentally by turtles (Frick et al. 2009). The depth range reported is 0–2 m (LeCroy et al. 2009).
RemarksCaprella andreae is similar to Caprella penantis Leach, 1814, but readily distinguished from the latter by the inflated peduncle of antenna 1 in males and the palm of pereopods 5–7 convex with medial grasping spines. Recently, Cabezas et al. (2010) have clearly separated C. andreae from the populations of C. penantis using molecular evidence, supporting the validity of these two species, which, along with Caprella dilatata Krøyer, 1843 were formerly considered as one under the ‘acutifrons’ complex. Although the review of Foster, Thomas, et al. (2004) suggests the presence of this species in the northern region of the Gulf of Mexico, those authors along with LeCroy et al. (2009) overlooked the Texas coast record of Shirley (1974) reporting C. andreae found on the carapace of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta. Thus, C. andreae has not been recorded in the Gulf of Mexico during the last 39 years.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Caprellidae
- Genus
- Caprella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Mayer
- Species
- andreae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caprella andreae Mayer, 1890 sec. Paz-Ríos, Guerra-García & Ardisson, 2014
References
- Mayer P. 1890. Die Caprelliden des Golfes von Neapel under angrenenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Nachtrag zur Monographie derselben. Fauna Flora Golfe Neapel. 17: 1 - 157.
- Chevreux E, Fage L. 1925. Amphipodes. Faune de France. 9: 1 - 488.
- McCain JC. 1968. The Capreillidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the Western North Atlantic. Bull US Natl Mus. 278: 1 - 147.
- McCain JC, Steinberg JE. 1970. Amphipoda I, Caprellidea I, Fam. Caprellidae. Crustaceorum Catalogus. 2: 1 - 78.
- Cavedini P. 1982. Contributo alla conoscenza dei Caprellidi del Mediterraneo (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Boll Mus Civ Stor Nat Verona. 8: 493 - 531.
- Krapp-Schickel G. 1993. Suborder Caprellidea. Memoires de l Institut Oceanographique Monaco. 13: 773 - 809.
- Aoki M, Kikuchi T. 1995. Notes on Caprella andreae Mayer, 1890 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the carapace of Loggerhead Sea Turtles in the East China Sea and in Kyushu, Japan. Proc Jap Soc Syst Zool. 53: 54 - 61.
- Ortiz M, Alvarez F, Winfield I. 2002. Caprellid amphipods (Amphipoda: Caprellidea): illustrated key for the genera and species from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Ciudad de Mexico (MX): Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
- Minchin D, Colmes JMC. 1993. A skeleton shrimp Caprella andreae Mayer (Crustacea: Amphipoda) new to Ireland and other strandings in September 1991. Ir Nat J. 24: 285.
- Spivak ED, Bass CC. 1999. First finding of the pelagic crab Planes marinus (Decapoda: Grapsidae) in the Southwestern Atlantic. J Crust Biol. 19: 72 - 76.
- Shirley TC. 1974. Caprella andreae Mayer, 1890 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from Padre Island, Texas. Tex J Sci. 26: 621.
- Caine EA. 1986. Carapace epibionts of nesting loggerhead sea turtles: Atlantic coast of USA. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol. 95: 15 - 26.
- Pfaller JB, Frick MG, Reich KJ, Williams KL, Bjorndal KA. 2008. Carapace epibionts of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) nesting at Canaveral National Seashore, Florida. J Nat Hist. 42: 1095 - 1102.
- Sezgin M, Ates AS, Kata T, Katagan T, Bakir K, Yalcin Ozdilek S. 2009. Notes on amphipods Caprella andreae Mayer, 1890 and Podocerus chelonophilus (Chevreux and Guerne, 1888) collected from the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, off the Mediterranean and the Aegean coasts of Turkey. Turk J Zool. 33: 433 - 437.
- Frick MG, Williams KL, Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 2009. Foraging ecology of oceanic-stage loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta. Endang Species Res. 9: 91 - 97.
- LeCroy S, Gasca R, Winfield I, Ortiz M, Escobar-Briones E. 2009. Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder DL, Camp DK, editors. Gulf of Mexico origins, waters and biota, vol. I, Biodiversity. Corpus Christi (TX): Texas AandM University Press; p. 941 - 972.
- Leach WE. 1814. Crustaceology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. 7: 383 - 437.
- Cabezas MP, Guerra-Garcia JM, Baeza-Rojano E, Redondo-Gomez S, Figueroa ME, Luque T, Garcia-Gomez JC. 2010. Exploring molecular variation in the cosmopolitan Caprella penantis (Crustacea: Amphipoda): results from RAPD analysis. J Mar Biol Ass U K. 90: 617 - 622.
- Kroyer H. 1843. Beskrivelse af nogle arter og slaegter af Caprellina: med indledende bemaerkninger om Laemodipoda og deres plads i systemet. Naturhistorisk tidsskrift. 4: 490 - 518.