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Redescription and first record of Camacho faroensis Myers, 1998 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the continental slope off Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula)

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This paper reports the southernmost record of Camacho faroensis Myers, 1998 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Aoridae) from samples collected at the continental slope (Ferrol Canyon) off the NW Iberian Peninsula during the DIVA-Artabria I expeditions. This species was initially described from the Faroe Islands but type specimens are incomplete and lack relevant features (e.g., antenna 1, pereopod 5). Therefore, a detailed redescription and drawings are provided based on examination of the type series and the new material collected. To date, the genus Camacho Stebbing, 1888 is composed of three species being C. faroensis as the only one reported so far from the Northern Hemisphere. This species is characterized by the following characters: absence of eyes, cephalic lobes reduced, presence of two ventral spines on peduncle article 1 distal margin of antenna 1, presence of spines (stout setae) on pereopods 5–7, reduced inner rami of uropod 3, and lacking distal setae. A key for all recognized species of the genus is also included.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the crew of the R/V Mytilus (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [CSIC] Spain), to the staff of the Estación de Bioloxía Mariña da Graña (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) who sorted the samples, and to the staff of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen (ZMUC) and Museo de Historia Natural of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (MHNUSC) for loaning of specimens. The authors also want to thank the comments of three anonymous reviewers who helped to vastly improve this work.

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This work is a contribution of the following projects: PGIDT01PXI20008PR, PGIDIT05PXIC20001P, PGIDIT07PXB000120PR, A Selva-08, and ForSaGal-09 financed by the Dirección Xeral (I + D + i) from the Xunta de Galicia, and VEM2003-20070-C04-04, CGL2004-22429-E, and CTM2004-00740 financed by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain).

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  1. Estación de Bioloxía Mariña da Graña, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Casa do Hórreo, Rúa da Ribeira 1, A Graña, 15590, Ferrol, Spain

    Ramiro Tato

  2. Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Moreira

  3. Departamento de Zooloxía e Antropoloxía Física, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Victoriano Urgorri

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Tato, R., Moreira, J. & Urgorri, V. Redescription and first record of Camacho faroensis Myers, 1998 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the continental slope off Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula). Mar Biodiv 49, 897–904 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-018-0874-9

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