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Título del libro: Gulf Of Mexico Origin, Waters, And Biota
Título del capítulo: Stomatopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico

Autores UNAM:
FERNANDO ALVAREZ NOGUERA; ADOLFO GRACIA GASCA; MANUEL ANTOLIN ORTIZ TOUZET; ANA ROSA VAZQUEZ BADER;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2009
Resumen:

The order Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps) is represented by an ecologically and behaviorally diverse group of actively predatory crustaceans that nevertheless exhibit only moderate morphological diversity compared to the decapods. All are shrimplike in form, with triramous antennules, a large abdomen supported by stiltlike uropods, full pleopods adorned with plumose gills, 3 pairs of walking legs, and 5 pairs of maxillipeds (of which the second pair is modified equally into unique hammering and spearing raptorial claws with a deadly strike mechanism; Patek, Korff, and Caldwell 2004, Patek and Caldwell 2005). The group has a long fossil history. The extinct tyrontophontids (suborder Archeostomatopodea) are known since the Carboniferous. The other suborder, the Unipeltata, includes the extinct sculdids and pseudosculdids from the Triassic and Jurassic as well as the 5 Recent superfamilies (Bathysquilloidea, Erythrosquilloidea, Gonodactyloidea, Lysiosquilloidea, Squilloidea; Schram and Müller 2004). The order Stomatopoda currently comprises 482 species (449 living, 33 fossil), with 122 genera (111 living, 11 extinct), 22 families (4 extinct), 5 living superfamilies (+ uncertain superfamily status of extinct groups), and 2 suborders (1 extinct; Schram and Müller 2004). In this report, we document 10% of the world's living stomatopod species (45 species, 2 of them as "species complexes"), 22% of the world's genera (24 genera), 61% of the world's families (11), and 80% of the world's superfamilies (4) in the Gulf of Mexico (GMx). Copyright © 2009 by Texas A&M University Press. All rights reserved.


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