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First record of Enoplometopus callistus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae) in the Cape Verde Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2004

Sonia Elsy Merino
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP), CP 132, Mindelo, S. Vicente, Cabo Verde, West Africa
J. Alistair Lindley
Affiliation:
Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK

Abstract

Enoplometopus callistus is reported for the first time from the Cape Verde Islands. In January 2001 two specimens were captured in depths of 100–150  m as by-catch in the lobster fisheries. One of them was dissected and kept in alcohol for future reference, the second one was put into an aquarium. The existing data on the distributions of the two Atlantic species of this genus, E. antillensis and E. callistus, indicate that the latter is restricted to the waters of the East Atlantic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2003 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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