The family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 (Crustacea, Peracarida) in tropical America with the description of a new species
Ortiz, M.; Capetillo, N.; Lopeztegui, A. (2025). The family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 (Crustacea, Peracarida) in tropical America with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 5613(1): 153-164. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.7
In: Zootaxa. Magnolia Press: Auckland. ISSN 1175-5326; e-ISSN 1175-5334, more
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- Ortiz, M.
- Capetillo, N.
- Lopeztegui, A.
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| Abstract |
The tropical American family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 is only composed by the genus Batea Müller, 1865. This genus includes 14 species of which 7 are distributed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Brazil and the Northwestern Atlantic. The rest 6 are distributed in the Pacific, mainly in Baja California and the Gulf of California. Only B. catharinensis Müller, 1865, has a distribution on both sides of America. These amphipods are easily recognized due to their peculiar degraded gnathopod 1 that is hidden by coxa 2. A new species of Batea collected in the Gulf of California is described and fully illustrated. For the first time, a dichotomous key is provided for the classification of the now 15 known species. A chronologically ordered table with the authors and years of the main papers published related to the general distribution of these species is also presented. |
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