A new species of Synidotea (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera) from the northern Gulf of Mexico
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—Synidotea fasten, n. sp., the sixth known member of the genus Synidotea from the western Atlantic Ocean, is described from shallow waters (1—2 m) adjacent to open beaches in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Its current range extends from western Florida westward to Texas. The new species is distinguished from other related species by small size, fairly straight lateral margins of first perconite, having the posterior margin of pleotelson straight to very slightly emarginate and by details of the appendix masculina. A key to the known western Atlantic species of the genus Synidotea is also given.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011