Mexico, Feb. 22 (Notimex).- Specialists from Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur, for its acronym in Spanish) reported the discovery of a new species of crustacean (amphipod) in the bottom habitats of the Yucatan continental shelf.
The finding was in charge of the doctoral student Carlos Paz, who was advised by the scientist of that center, Daniel Pech.
Both, discovered and described the crustacean and was named as Gammaropsis elvirae, in honor of Elvira, the wife of Carlos Paz.
The new species was found frequently and abundantly at depths of 70 meters, which shows that the Yucatán platform has been little explored and that it has a great diversity of species that are not yet known, they explained.
In a statement, the Ecosur highlights that this discovery represents a milestone in the long-term research program on Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change.
It is described and illustrated as a new species of the Photidae Boeck family (identified in 1871), located in sites distributed in the soft sediment habitats of the Yucatán platform, south of the Gulf of Mexico.
The crustacean stands out for a unique set of characteristics such as rounded lateral cephalic lobes and external lobes of the lower lip, among others.
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