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Diversity of Atlantidae mollusks (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea) from the southern region of the California current off Baja California peninsula, Mexico

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The gastropod family Atlantidae is a group of holoplanktonic mollusks comprising 23 species in three genera. Most atlantids have tropical and subtropical affinity, but two thirds of the known species are also distributed in transitional and/or temperate regions. The region off the Baja California Peninsula (BCP) is a faunistic transitional area in which a mix of subarctic, temperate, subtropical, and tropical communities occurs. Since the last extensive study in 1967, only eight species of Atlantidae have been recorded. In this study, the atlantid species composition off the BCP was determined based on three oceanographic surveys in fall 2015, winter, and spring 2016. A total of 18 species were recorded. The findings of Atlanta brunnea J.E. Gray, 1850, A. echinogyra Richter, 1972, A. frontieri Richter, 1993, A. gibbosa Souleyet, 1852, A. helicinoidea J.E. Gray, 1850, A. plana Richter, 1972, A. tokiokai van der Spoel & Troost, 1972 and Oxygyrus inflatus Benson, 1835 represent northward expansion of their known distributional range, while A. fragilis Richter, 1993 and A. rosea Gray, 1850 are recorded for the first time in the American Pacific, thus increasing to 20 the number of species present in the Northeastern Pacific region. These records allow the recognition of the Pacific coast off the BCP as an area of high species diversity of atlantids in the Mexican Pacific.

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We thank the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado (SIP-IPN) for funding through the project SIP: 20194980, and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) for funding to the IMECOCAL program through the projects CONACyT 257125 and 254745. We also thank the Instituto Nacional de la Pesca (INAPESCA) for the facilities to use the R/V BIPO-INAPESCA through the project INAPESCA-CICIMAR “Prospección acústica, biología pesquera básica y censos de huevos y larvas de peces, larvas de langosta y paralarvas de calamar de especies de importancia comercial en el noroeste de México”, the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada and the IMECOCAL program for the use of the R/V Alpha Helix, as well as the captains and crew of both research vessels. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions to improve this manuscript. MMA is a CONACyT fellow; GAM is an EDI, COFAA and SNI fellow.

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Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado (SIP-IPN) project SIP: 20194980; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) projects CONACyT 257125 and 254745; Instituto Nacional de la Pesca (INAPESCA) project INAPESCA-CICIMAR “Prospección acústica, biología pesquera básica y censos de huevos y larvas de peces, larvas de langosta y paralarvas de calamar de especies de importancia comercial en el noroeste de México”.

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Moreno-Alcántara, M., Delgado-Hofmann, D. & Aceves-Medina, G. Diversity of Atlantidae mollusks (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea) from the southern region of the California current off Baja California peninsula, Mexico. Mar. Biodivers. 50, 27 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01059-7

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