Check List 11(5): e19353, doi: 10.15560/11.5.1754
First record and geographic range extension of the coccolithophore Scyphosphaera apsteinii Lohman, 1902 (Haptophyta: Pontosphaeraceae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico
Francisco O. López-Fuerte‡, Ismael Gárate-Lizárraga§, David A. Siqueiros-Beltrones§, Ricardo Yabur‡‡ Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Mexico§ Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas–IPN, Mexico
Corresponding author: Francisco López-Fuerte ( folopez@uabcs.mx ) © 2017 Francisco López-Fuerte, Ismael Gárate-Lizárraga, David Siqueiros-Beltrones, Ricardo Yabur. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
López-Fuerte F, Siqueiros-Beltrones D, Gárate-Lizárraga I, Yabur R (2015) First record and geographic range extension of the coccolithophore Scyphosphaera apsteinii Lohman, 1902 (Haptophyta: Pontosphaeraceae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico. Check List 11(5): 1754. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1754 |  |
Abstract
The coccolithophorid Scyphosphaera apsteinii is here reported for the first time from waters off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula. Scyphosphaera apsteinii is the type species of the genus Scyphosphaera and had hitherto been recorded only in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean Seas. Specimens were found in samples collected in nets off Isla de Guadalupe in January 2013. This recording thus extends the geographical distribution of S. apsteinii from the Central Pacific (Hawaii) to the Eastern Pacific (NW Mexico).
Keywords
Eastern Pacific; haptophytes; new recording; nanoplankton