A new species of the genus Campylaspis (Crustacea: Cumacea) from the mesophotic reefs of St. John, US Virgin Islands

Iorgu Petrescu; Tapas Chatterjee; Nikolaos V. Schizas

doi:10.18475/cjos.v49i1.a3

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Iorgu Petrescu,¹ Tapas Chatterjee,^2,* Nikolaos V. Schizas³

¹1 ‘Grigore Antipa’ National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff 1, Bucharest 011341, Romania
²2department of Biology, Indian School of Learning, ISM Annexe, P.O. — ISM, Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand
³3department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Call Box 9000, Mayagüez, PR 00

^*Corresponding author email: drtchatterjee@yahoo.co.in

Abstract

A new species of the genus Campylaspis G.O. Sars, C. grazielae and also Campylaspis sp. are described from the mesophotic coral ecosystems of St. John, US Virgin Islands, Caribbean Sea. Similarities and dissimilarities with related species are discussed and a taxonomic key is provided for the Western Atlantic species of the genus Campylaspis. With the addition of C. grazielae sp. nov. described herein, there are 17 recognized species of Campylaspis in the Western Atlantic. This is the first record of the genus Campylaspis from the US Virgin Islands.

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Iorgu Petrescu, Tapas Chatterjee, and Nikolaos V. Schizas "A new species of the genus Campylaspis (Crustacea: Cumacea) from the mesophotic reefs of St. John, US Virgin Islands," Caribbean Journal of Science 49(1), 17-26, (1 August 2016). https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v49i1.a3

Published: 1 August 2016

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