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A New Deep-Sea Species of Genus Bathybirubius Senna, 2010 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Amphipoda) Associated with Bathyal Sediments from The Bay of Campeche, SW Gulf of Mexico
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Abstract
The genus Bathybirubius Senna, 2010 was erected to receive the species B. margaretae Senna, 2010 from Brazilian deep—sea waters. The present study describes and illustrates in detail a new deep—sea species of Bathybirubius which represents the second species in the genus and the first record for the Gulf of Mexico. The new species was collected from soft bottoms offshore Veracruz State, Mexico, in the Bay of Campeche, SW Gulf of Mexico, at 2,385 m depth. The new species is characterized by head length, accessory flagellum of antenna 1, antenna flagellum 2, mandibular palp, coxae 1 and 2, merus of pereopods 3 and 4, basis of pereopod 7, epimeron 3, and notch of telson. A comparative table showing primary features of the only 2 Bathybirubius species described until now is also included.
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Ortiz, M., I. Winfield and S. Cházaro Olvera.
2025.
A New Deep-Sea Species of Genus Bathybirubius Senna, 2010 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Amphipoda) Associated with Bathyal Sediments from The Bay of Campeche, SW Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf and Caribbean Research
36
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1-6.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol36/iss1/1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.3601.01
