2149 A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CHAETOGNATHA, SPADELLIDAE, Paraspadella nana Owre, 1963: TWO NEW OCCURRENCES FROM THE WESTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN

Autores

  • Lucas Guedes Pereira Figueirêdo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4853-4987
  • Pedro Augusto Mendes de Castro Melo
  • Gabriel Bitencourt Farias
  • Mauro de Melo-Júnior
  • Xiomara Garcia Diaz
  • Sigrid Neumann-Leitão

Palavras-chave:

Emergent trap, demersal zooplankton, benthic chaetognatha

Resumo

Two new records of Paraspadella nana (Owre, 1963) are reported. The individuals were found in two
distinct locations apart more than 1,000 km from each other (the Abrolhos Bank and the Tamandaré bay, Northeastern
Brazil). Emergent traps for demersal zooplankton were used for the sample collection. This methodology is proposed
as the most efficient to catch Spadellidae species and possibly changing the perspective on the distribution of this
group. The finding reported here significantly expends the distributional range of P. nana in the Western Tropical
Atlantic Ocean..

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Publicado

30-12-2017

Edição

v. 17 n. 1 (2017): Volume 17 do Boletim Técnico-Científico do Cepnor

Seção

Nota Científica