Caprella erethizon Mayer, 1901

Guerra-García, J. M. & Takeuchi, I., 2002, The Caprellidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Ceuta, North Africa, with the description of three species of Caprella, a key to the species of Caprella, and biogeographical discussion, Journal of Natural History 36 (6), pp. 675-713 : 684-685

Caprella erethizon Mayer, 1901

(®gure 7) Caprella erethizon Mayer, 1901: 239 ±245, ®gures 1±3; Mayer, 1903: 101, pl. 4, ®gures 12±13;

pl. 7, ®gure 77; Chevreux and Fage, 1925: 459 ±460, ®gure 436; Bertrand, 1941: 9, 17,

20±23, ®gure 1; Bocquet and Peltier, 1963: 152 ±165, ®gures 1±10, pls. 1±2.

Material examined. 2B: three males; 7D: one male; 15D: 12 males, 12 females, one juvenile.

Remarks

Caprella erethizon Mayer has been considered, as well as C. tuberculata , a rare species ( Chevreux and Fage, 1925). The original description of Mayer (1901) was poor, with only the female described. Chevreux and Fage (1925) redescribed the female and described the juvenile male of C. erethizon with very schematic ®gures. Bertrand (1941) found an adult male of C. erethizon but he added little information about its morphological characteristics. Bocquet and Peltier (1963) ®nally gave a precise redescription of this species. The specimens of C. erethizon found in Ceuta, North Africa are identical to those described by these authors from RoscoOE (Atlantic French coasts). This species was previously recorded on Atlantic coasts of England and France and only one specimen has been found on the Atlantic Portuguese coast ( Marques and Bellan-Santini, 1985).