The species of Hippolyte Leach (Crustacea, Caridea, Hippolytidae) from Terminos Lagoon, southwestern Gulf of Mexico

Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L; Barba, E; Sanchez, A.J; Fransozo, A; Ráz-Guzmán, A

doi:10.1590/S0101-81751996000300002

Abstract

The taxonomic identity of specimens of the genus Hippolyte Leach, 1814 of Laguna de Términos was considered including the colour and the presence-absence of tufts of plumose setae on the dorsal surface of the carapace and abdomen as secondary characteristics to morphological features of taxonomic value. Two groups were formed based on appearance: one transparent with setae and another green without setae. The analysis of five morphological characteristics in adult females of the two groups made it possible to identify only H. zostericola (Smith, 1873). Fecundity and fertility were similar (0.5>p>0.2) in both groups. The first zoea of both groups were also morphologically similar. Considering these results, it is concluded that the only species collected was H. zoslericola and that it has two phenotypical types. It is recomended that the morphological analysis of all larval stages be carried out.

Hippolyte; zoea; fertility; fecundity; SW Gulf of Mexico

The species of Hippolyte Leach (Crustacea, Caridea, Hippolytidae) from Terminos Lagoon, southwestern Gulf of Mexico

M.L. Negreiros-Fransozo^I; E. Barba^II; A.J. Sanchez^II; A. Fransozo^I; A. Ráz-Guzmán^II

^IDepartamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências e Centro de Aquicultura, Universidade Estadual Paulista. 18618-000 Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil

^IILaboratório Ecologia del Bentos, Instituto de Ciências dei Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Apartado 70-305, 04510 México, DF, México

ABSTRACT

The taxonomic identity of specimens of the genus Hippolyte Leach, 1814 of Laguna de Términos was considered including the colour and the presence-absence of tufts of plumose setae on the dorsal surface of the carapace and abdomen as secondary characteristics to morphological features of taxonomic value. Two groups were formed based on appearance: one transparent with setae and another green without setae. The analysis of five morphological characteristics in adult females of the two groups made it possible to identify only H. zostericola (Smith, 1873). Fecundity and fertility were similar (0.5>p>0.2) in both groups. The first zoea of both groups were also morphologically similar. Considering these results, it is concluded that the only species collected was H. zoslericola and that it has two phenotypical types. It is recomended that the morphological analysis of all larval stages be carried out.

Key words:Hippolyte, zoea, fertility, fecundity, SW Gulf of Mexico

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The authors are grateful to L.A. Soto, head of the Lab. Ecología del Bentos for his overall support, to F. Vera, A. Ortega and A. Roda, of the field station of El Carnien-ICMYL for their help at the station and on the lagoon, and to N. Canales for helping to review the specimens. This study was financed by the research project "Interacciones Ecológicas en Comunidades Bénticas Litorales/OGMEX-Comunidades Bénticas" of the ICMyL, UNAM, and was carried out during a short stay of the members of the NEBECC in Mexico. The authors arc gratefull to Pillar Peralta-Pereira, to Rosa Florido-Araújo y Patricia Schmidtsdorf for their helping during the field work.

Recebido em 30.XI.1995; aceito em 21.X.1996.

Barba, E.M., A. Raz-Guzman & A.J. Sanchez. 1993. Patrones de distribución de los carideos de Laguna Madre, Tamaulipas y Laguna de Términos, Campeche. In: XII Congreso Nacional de Zoología. Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, p.43-44.
Bauer, R.T. 1989. Continuous reproduction and episodic recruitment in nine shrimp species inhabiting a tropical seagrass meadow. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 127: 175-187.
Chace Jr., F.A. 1972. The shrimps of the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean expeditions with a summary of the West Indian shallow-water species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 98: i-x, 1-179.
Day, J.W.; R.H. Day; M.T. Barreiro; F. Ley-Lou & C.J. Madden. 1982. Primary production in the Laguna de Términos, a tropical estuary in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Oceanol. Acta, São Paulo: 269-276.
Diaz, H; J.E. Conde & M. Bevilacqua. 1983. A volumetric method for estimating fecundity in Decapoda. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 10: 203-206.
Dugan, P.J. 1983. Seasonal and geographic distribution of seven decapod crustaceans in Apalachee Bay, Florida. Contrib. Mar. Sci. 26: 65-79.
Etxeberria, J.; L. Joaristi & L. Lizasoain. 1991. Programación y análisis estadísticos básicos con SPSS/PC+. Madrid, Ed. Paraninfo, 337p.
Ewald, J.J. 1969. Observations on the biology of Tozeuma carolinense (Decapoda, Hippolytidae) from Florida, with special reference to larval development. Bull. Mar. Sci. 19 (3): 510-549.
Fielder, D.R. & J.G. Greenwood. 1985. The systematic position of Heloecias cordiformis (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) as revealed by larval morphology. Crustaceana 48 (3): 244-248.
Gore, R.H.; E.E. Gallagher; L.E. Scotto & K.W. Wilson. 1981. Studies on decapod crustácea from the Indian River region of Florida. XI. Community composition, structure, biomass and species-areal relationships of seagrass and drift algae-associated macrocrustaceans. Est. Coast. Shelf. Sci. 12: 485-508.
Gurney, R. 1936. Notes on some decapod crustaceans of Bermuda. II. The species of Hippolyte and their larvae. Proc. zool. Soc. London: 1-9.
HlNES, A.H. 1982. Allometric constraunts and variables of reproductive effort in Brachyuran crabs. Mar. Biol. 69: 309-320.
______. 1988. Fecundity and reproductive output in two species of deep-sea crabs, Geryon fenneri and Geiyon quinquedens (Dccapoda: Brachyura). J. Crust. Biol. 8 (4): 557-562.
Holmquist, J.F.; G.V.N. Powell & S.M. Sogard. 1989. Decapod and stomatopod communities of seagrass-covered mud banks in Florida Bay: Inter-and intra-bank heterogeneity, its special reference to isolated subenvironments. Bull. Mar. Sci. 44: 251-262.
Hermoso, A.M. & L.A. Martinez. 1991. Estudio taxonómico de ocho familias de camarones (Crustacea: Decapoda) en cinco arrecifes en el Golfo de MÉxico. Tesis profesional, not publicatcd, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, MÉxico, DF, 87p.
Leach, C. 1982. Fundamentos de estadística: enfoque no paramétrico para ciencias sociales. Mexico, Ld. Limusa, 422p.
LEDOYER, M. 1986. Faune mobile des herbiers de phanÉrogames marines (Halodule et Thalassia) de la Laguna de Términos (Mexique, Campeche) I. Les caridea (Crustacea: Decapoda) et aperçu sur la faune globale. An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nal. Autón. México 13 (3): 147-170.
Lobão, V.L.; N.E.T. Rojas & W.C. Valente 1986. Fecundidadc e fertilidade de Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea, Decapoda) em laboratorio. Bol. Inst. Pesca 13 (2): 15-20.
Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L. & A. Fransozo. 1991. Larval stages of Epialtiis brasiliensis Dana, 1852 (Dccapoda, Brachyura, Majidae) reared in the laboratory, with notes on characters of the majid subfamilies. Crustaceana 60 (2): 200-212.
Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L.; A. Fransozo; F.L.M. Mantelatto; J.M. Nakagaki & M.C.F. Spilborghs. 1992. Fecundity of Paguristes tortugae Schmitt, 1933(Crustacea, Dccapoda, Anomura) in Ubatuba (SP), Brazil. Rev. Brasil. Biol. 52 (4): 547-553.
Negreiros-Fransozo, M.L.; A. Fransozo & N.J. Hebling. 1989. Larval development of Persephona mediterránea (Flerbsl, 1794) (Brachyura, Leucosiidae) under laboratory conditions. Crustaceana 57 (2): 177-193.
Parsons, D.G. & G.E. Tucker. 1986. Fecundity of northern shrimp, Pandahis borealis, (Crustacea, Decapoda) in areas of the Northwest Atlantic. Fish. Bull. 84 (3): 549-558.
Provenzano Jr., A.J. 1985. The Biology of Crustacea: Economic Aspects: Fisheries and Culture. New York, Academic Press Inc., vol. 10, XXV+331 p.
Ráz-Guzman, A. & A.J. Sanchez. 1992. Registros adicionales de cangrejos braquiuros (Crustacea: Brachytira) de Lagunade TÉrminos Campeche. An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nal. Autón. México, Ser. Zool. 63 (1): 29-45.
Ráz-Guzman, A.; A.J. Sanchez; L.A. Soto & F. Alvarez. 1986. Catálogo ilustrado de cangrejos braquiuros y anomuros de Laguna de Términos, Campeche (Crustacea: Brachyura, Anomura). An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nal. Autón. México, Ser. Zool. 57 (2): 343-383.
Ráz-Guzman, A. & G. de la Lanza. 1991. Evaluation of photosynthetic pathways of vegetation, and of sources of sedimentary organic matter through d¹³C in Términos Lagoon, Campeche, Mexico. An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nal. Autón. México, Ser. Bot., 62 (1): 39-63.
Renfro, W.C. 1962. Small beam net for sampling postlarval shrimp. US Fish. Wildl. Serv. Circ. 161: 86-87.
Rodrigues, M.D. & N.J. Hebling. 1989. Ucides cordatus cordatas (Linnaeus, 1763) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Complete larval development under laboratory conditions and its systematic position. Revta bras. Zool. 6 (1): 147-166.
Sanchez, A.J. 1994. Feeding habits of Lutjaniisapodus (Osteichthyes: Lutjanidae) in Laguna de Términos, southwest Gulf of Mexico. Rev. Inv. Mar. 15 (2):125-134.
Sanchez, A.J. & A. Ráz-Guzman. 1992. Distribution patterns of aquatic brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) in a tropical estuarine system: Términos Lagoon, southern Gulf of Mexico. British Ecological Society & ASLO Symposium, "Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Pattern & Process". Cork, Ireland.
Shield, P.D. 1978. Larval development of the caridean shrimp, Hippolyte pleuracanthus (Stimpson) reared in the laboratory. Estuaries 1 (1): 1-16.
Sokal, R.R. & F.J. Rohlf. 1981. Biometry. San Francisco, W.H. Freeman and Co., 859p.
Vargas-Maldonado, L; A. Yañez-Arancibia & F. Amezcua-Linares. 1981. Ecología y estructura de las comunidades de peces en areas de Rhizophora mangle y Thalassia testudinum de la Isla del Carmen, Laguna de Términos, sur del Golfo de MÉxico. An. Inst. Cienc. del Mar y Limnol. Univ. Nal. Autón. MÉxico 8 (1): 241-266.
Virnstein, R.W. 1987. Seagrass-associated invertebrate communities of the southeastern USA: A Review. Fla. Mar. Res. Publ. 42: 89-116.
Williams, A.B. 1965. Marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolines. US Fish. Wildl. Serv. Fish. Bull. 65 (1): 1-298.
______, 1984. Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 550p.
Wood, C.E. 1974. Key to the Natantia (Crustacea, Decapoda) of the coastal waters of the Texas Coast. Contrib. Mar. Sei. 18: 35-56.
Yañez-Arancibia, A.; A.L. Lara-Dominguez; A. Aguirre-Leon; F. Amezcua-Linares; D. Flores-Hernandez & P. Chavance. 1985. Ecology of dominant fish populations in tropical estuaries, environmental factors regulating biological strategies and production, p.311-367. In: A. Yáñez-Arancibia (Ed.). Fish Community Ecology and Coastal Lagoons: Towards an Ecosystem Integration. Mexico, Editorial Universitaria, UNAM-PUAL-ICMyL, 654p.
Zar, J.H. 1984. Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice-Hall Inc. New Jersey, 718p.

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[5] Diaz, H; J.E. Conde & M. Bevilacqua. 1983. A volumetric method for estimating fecundity in Decapoda. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 10: 203-206.

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[9] Fielder, D.R. & J.G. Greenwood. 1985. The systematic position of Heloecias cordiformis (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Decapoda, Ocypodidae) as revealed by larval morphology. Crustaceana 48 (3): 244-248.

[10] Gore, R.H.; E.E. Gallagher; L.E. Scotto & K.W. Wilson. 1981. Studies on decapod crustácea from the Indian River region of Florida. XI. Community composition, structure, biomass and species-areal relationships of seagrass and drift algae-associated macrocrustaceans. Est. Coast. Shelf. Sci. 12: 485-508.

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[13] ______. 1988. Fecundity and reproductive output in two species of deep-sea crabs, Geryon fenneri and Geiyon quinquedens (Dccapoda: Brachyura). J. Crust. Biol. 8 (4): 557-562.

[14] Holmquist, J.F.; G.V.N. Powell & S.M. Sogard. 1989. Decapod and stomatopod communities of seagrass-covered mud banks in Florida Bay: Inter-and intra-bank heterogeneity, its special reference to isolated subenvironments. Bull. Mar. Sci. 44: 251-262.

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[22] Parsons, D.G. & G.E. Tucker. 1986. Fecundity of northern shrimp, Pandahis borealis, (Crustacea, Decapoda) in areas of the Northwest Atlantic. Fish. Bull. 84 (3): 549-558.

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[24] Ráz-Guzman, A. & A.J. Sanchez. 1992. Registros adicionales de cangrejos braquiuros (Crustacea: Brachytira) de Lagunade TÉrminos Campeche. An. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nal. Autón. México, Ser. Zool. 63 (1): 29-45.

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[29] Sanchez, A.J. 1994. Feeding habits of Lutjaniisapodus (Osteichthyes: Lutjanidae) in Laguna de Términos, southwest Gulf of Mexico. Rev. Inv. Mar. 15 (2):125-134.

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