Check List 15(4): 549-554, doi: 10.15560/15.4.549
Range extension of Guyanella clenchi (Altena, 1968) (Bivalvia, Lucinidae) with new records from Abrolhos Bank, Brazil
Bárbara Louise Valentas-Romera‡, Flávia Maria Pereira Costa§, Ana Maria Setubal Pires-Vanin§‡ Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil§ Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Corresponding author: Bárbara Louise Valentas-Romera ( barbarella.lou@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Leonardo Santos de Souza © Bárbara Louise Valentas-Romera, Flávia Maria Pereira Costa, Ana Maria Setubal Pires-Vanin. 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:
Valentas-Romera BL, Costa FMP, Pires-Vanin AMS (2019) Range extension of Guyanella clenchi (Altena, 1968) (Bivalvia, Lucinidae) with new records from Abrolhos Bank, Brazil. Check List 15(4): 549-554. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.4.549 |  |
Abstract
Guyanella clenchi (Altena, 1968) is newly reported from Abrolhos Bank, northeastern Brazil. The new records extend the distribution of this species to the Southern Atlantic and reinforce the known overlap between the Caribbean and South American marine faunas. Even though it inhabits well-sampled regions, G. clenchi is a poorly known species which is not well represented in collections. The new occurrence of the species in the Southern Atlantic draws attention to the necessity of further improvement in sampling strategies aimed at filling in the distribution gaps of species.
Keywords
Marine faunas, Mollusca, occurrence, overlapping distribution, sampling, Southwestern Atlantic