Marilyn Schotte's research while affiliated with Smithsonian Institution and other places

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The family Santiidae consists of five genera and 29 species at present, included in the Suborder Asellota. In the northwest Atlantic this family is represented only by the genera Santia (two species), Halacarsantia (one species) and Spinosantia (one species). The present paper deals with the description of a new species of the genus Halacarsantia,...
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Background: The question of how many marine species exist is important because it provides a metric for how much we do and do not know about life in the oceans. We have compiled the first register of the marine species of the world and used this baseline to estimate how many more species, partitioned among all major eukaryotic groups, may be disco...
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Twelve new species from three genera of Gnathiidae are described: Caecognathia rhektos, Elaphognathia aldabrae, E. gladia, E. ramosa, Gnathia antonbruunae, G. eumeces, G. glauca, G. luxata, G. serrula, G. somalia, G. stoddarti, and G. zanzibarensis. Most are from the western Indian Ocean, with one from Thailand. Gnathia nkulu Smit & Van As, 2000, i...
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A third species of the genus Discerceis is described and a new generic diagnosis is offered. The distinctions in the new species are seen in morphological characters of the male, specifically the pleotelson, which bears an elongate, deeply set, apically upturned median tooth in the pleotelsonic notch, and in the uropods, which are much longer relat...
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Four new species of valviferans are described: Arcturinoides angulata, Astacilla mccaini and Astacilla spinicutis (family Arcturidae), and Neoarcturus obesopleon (family Holidoteidae). Amesopous richardsonae (Arcturidae) is redescribed and reported from widely separate localities throughout the Indian Ocean, tropical Australia and Japan.
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Isopod crustaceans comprise a relatively speciose and abundant group of invertebrates found in diverse habitats and depths throughout the world. Described species, including the terrestrial forms, now number over 10,000 (see the World List of Isopods at www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/isopod). Generally small in size, the majority being less than one centimeter...
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In this study of flabelliferan Isopoda from the Indian Ocean, 19 species are described as new, in 11 genera and two families: family Cirolanidae, Baharilana koloura, B. lira, Cirolana aldabrensis, C. mimulus, C. somalia, C. undata, Eurydice paxilli, and Metacirolana chemola; family Sphaeromatidae, Cassidinidea clarkae, Cymodoce fuscina, C. lirella,...
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The twelfth species of Speocirolana is described, distinguished from its cogener S. pubens by the morphology of the male uropods. A key to the known species of the genus is given. A distribution map of species in the genus, known only froth northeastern Mexico, is also presented.
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In this study of asellote Isopoda from the Indian Ocean, 29 species in 11 genera and seven families are recorded. Twenty-one species are described as new: family Gnathostenetroididae, Maresiella aldabrana; family Janiridae, Carpias mossambica; family Joeropsidae, Joeropsis algensis, J. arpedes, J. dimorpha, J. hamatilis, J. lentigo, J. pentagona, J...
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A new species of Thermosphaeroma (T. mendozai) is described from a collection of specimens found in hot springs in Chihuahua State, Mexico. Apomorphic characters are seen in the frontal lamina, pleotelson, and uropods. A new record is given for T. subequalum and the morphology of the female brood pouch is described for T. smithi., Bowman's (1981) k...
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Twenty four new species of anthuridean isopods are described from a variety of localities in the Indian Ocean, including the granitic Seychelles, Aldabra Atoll, Phuket Island, the Persian Gulf and Zanzibar Island: Family Antheluridae, Anthomuda quadrilineata; Family Anthuridae, Amakusanthura cosmoledo, Apanthuroides aldabrae, Apanthuroides calculos...
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The genus Oxinasphaera Bruce, 1997, distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific region, is composed of twenty-four named and a few unnamed species. Oxinasphaera penteumbonata n. sp. is here described from specimens from the Yemeni coast of the Arabian peninsula and from the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia. The species is characterized by five distin...
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Fifteen species of isopod are recorded for the first time as occurring in the Indian River Lagoon. Two species are described as new: the janirid asellote Iais floridana, n. sp., which occurs commensally with Sphaeroma terebrans in low salinity water, and the sphaeromatid flabelliferan Sphaeromopsis sanctaluciae, n. sp., which is also recorded from...
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Seven new species are described from localities on both the north and south coasts of Cuba: Cyathura (Cyathura) esquivel, Mesanthura frances, Joeropsis juvenilis, Joeropsis unidentata, Dynamenella nuevitas, Paraimene ibarzabalae, Paraimene tumulus. Several new records, including Carpias harrietae, Caecijaera horvathi, and Sphaeromopsis mourei are n...
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Twenty-one species of free-living isopods, and six species of parasitic bopyrids are recorded from the Indian River Lagoon. The distribution of this fauna bears out the zoogeographically transitional nature of the area, but also emphasizes its strong subtropical affinities. The seasonal abundance of the three most common species in Halodule seagras...
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Between April 1987 and April 1990, 45 species of marine isopods were collected from intertidal and subtidal habitats in the vicinity of Pine Cay, Turks and Caicos, British West Indies. Five species, Licranthura tuberculata, Mesanthura spongicola, Califanthura minuta, Stenetrium caicoensis, and Armadilloniscus stepus, are known currently only from t...
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Armadilloniscus steptus, n. sp., the second species of this genus from the Caribbean Sea, is described and distinguished from the other five species from the New World. The new species, collected from the upper intertidal zone on Pine Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands, differs from A. coronacapitalis, A. ellipticus, A. holmesi, A. lindahli, and A. nina...

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... Amphipoda Thermosphaeroma mendozai Schotte, 200029-30 Mexico Schotte (2000 Thermosphaeroma milleri Bowman, 198027-28 Mexico Bowman (1981 Thermosphaeroma smithi Bowman, 198125-44.7 Mexico Bowman (1981, Schotte (2000) Thermosphaeroma subequalum Cole & Bane, 197832-45 USA, Mexico Bowman (1981, Schotte (2000) Thermosphaeroma thermophilum (Richardson, 1897) 31-34 USA Bowman (1981), Schotte (2000) Ostracoda Cypridopsis fuhrmanni (Mèhes, 1914) 28 Argentina Laprida et al. (2006) Darwinula stevensoni (Brady & Robertson, 1870) 28 Argentina Laprida et al. (2006) Hemicypris panningi (Brehm, 1934) 28-30 Argentina Laprida et al. (2006) Heterocypris balnearia (Moniez, 1893) ≥51.5 Algeria Moniez (1893), Klie (1939) Heterocypris sabirae Gülen, 1985≥50 Turkey Gülen (1985 Ilyocypris gibba (Ramdohr, 1808) 38-42 USA Gülen (1977), Külköylüoĝlu and Vinyard (2000) Penthesilenula incae (Delachaux, 1928) 30 Argentina Laprida et al. (2006) Thermopsis thermophila Külköylüoğlu, Meisch & Rust, 200336-55 Nevada Külköylüoğlu et al. (2003, 2020 Thermosbaenacea Thermosbaena mirabilis Monod, 192437-48 Tunisia Barker (1959 on record (Brues 1924). Gammarus lacustris G.O. Sars, 1863 and Hyalella azteca (Saussure, 1858) were also recorded in hydrothermal vents on the floor of Yellowstone Lake at a water temperature of 32.3°C (Lovalvo et al. 2010). ...
... Seven species of Cassidinidea are known from North America, six from the western Atlantic and one from the East Pacific (see species list below). Most authorities including Menzies and Frankenberg (1966), Schultz (1969), Heard (1982), Bruce (1994), Kensley and Schotte (1999) and even the author of C. lunifrons (Richardson, 1905) have suggested that C. ovalis and C. lunifrons might be the same species and synonymy of the latter with C. ovalis is accepted by most experts. ...
... The pereon and pleon of most species in the genus do not exhibit any dorsal ornamentation. In S. heardi Kensley and Schotte, 1994 there is obvious sculpturing on the pleotelson, whereas in S. persikolpos, S. sikata, and S. jayaraji sp. nov., there are some scattered setae on the surface of these sclerites. ...
... In the Caribbean region, four species of Armadilloniscus have been recorded: A. caraibicus from Venezuela, A. ellipticus (Harger, 1878) from the Atlantic coasts of USA and Bermuda, A. ninae Schultz, 1984 from Belize, and A. steptus Schotte & Heard, 1991 from Turks and Caicos Islands (British West Indies) (Schultz 1984;Paoletti & Stinner 1989;Taiti & Ferrara 1989;Schotte & Heard 1991). For a definition of the genus see Arcangeli (1957), Vandel (1962), Taiti & Ferrara (1989), and Schmidt (2002). ...
... Los arrecifes de Sisal se ubican en el sureste del golfo de México (GMx) y constituyen un sistema de 3 estructuras arrecifales coralinas denominadas: arrecifes Sisal, Madagascar y Serpiente. Los invertebrados en estos arrecifes han sido estudiados parcialmente, enfocándose principalmente en esponjas (Ugalde et al., 2015), anémonas (González-Muñoz et al., 2013), octocorales y corales pétreos (Zarco-Parelló et al., 2013), moluscos (Ortigosa et al., 2013), crustáceos braquiuros (Hernández et al., 2012), crustáceos carídeos (Duarte et al., 2014;Santana-Moreno et al., 2013) e isópodos (Ortiz, Cruz-Cano et al., 2014;Ortiz et al., 2015). ...
... El gran interés en el estudio de los copépodos se debe a que son agentes de enfermedades en las poblaciones de peces silvestres y de acuicultura. Los isópodos son crustáceos parásitos que infectan a peces e invertebrados marinos, se conoce aproximadamente 6 familias y 16 especies para el territorio mexicano (Schotte et al., 2009;Carrillo-Colín et al., 2016). Esto crustáceos afectan la reproducción y el crecimiento de sus hospederos (Schotte et al., 2009;Carrillo-Colín et al., 2016). ...
... Después de la publicación de Ortiz et al. (1987), los mayores avances en el estudio de las especies marinas y estuarinas en Cuba, se deben principalmente a los trabajos llevados cabo por los mismos autores y por Kensley et al. (1997). Si el número de especies marinas, estuarinas y parásitas cubanas se comparan el de las especies citadas por Kensley y Schotte (1989) y por Schotte et al. (2009), se observa que el grupo en Cuba, no ha sido estudiado con la intensidad necesaria. ...
... Aunque el macho nunca fue descrito e ilustrado completamente, en Minckley y Cole (1968) existe información adicional (sin ilustraciones) y en Bowman (1992) hay una descripción y un dibujo (con detalles) del urópodo del macho; en estas publicaciones no se mencionó la presencia de espinas en la rama del urópodo, lo mismo es cierto para la descripción original elaborada a partir de una hem- bra, esto también es sorprendente en el espécimen descrito por Schotte (2002) que presenta espinas bien desarrolladas sobre el margen interno del endópodo uropodal (dos bilateralmente en el endópodo izquierdo del macho y dos en el de- recho de la hembra). ...
... However, Guinot (1968: 712), in her revision of the subfamily Xanthinae, assigned Xanthodius americanus as a valid species, following remarks from Monod (1956: 285) and placed Leptodius parvulus in Xanthodius rather than the genus Cataleptodius. Guinot also treated Chlorodius americanus de Saussure, 1858 as the only synonym of Xanthodius parvulus (see Felder et al. 2005: 1102, n o 421). Ng et al. (2008: 201) treated this species as Cataleptodius parvulus, and Poupin (2018: 222), with a recommendation from Peter Davie, recognized Xanthodius parvulus (Fabricius, 1793) as the oldest senior available name for Chlorodius americanus de Saussure, 1857. ...