Researchers from the Olhão pole of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere and the CESAM of the University of Aveiro published a scientific article to describe a new species of crustacean discovered in the Ria Formosa in the renowned specialist magazine “Marine Biodiversity”.
The existence of this tanaidacean crustacean, whose scientific name is apseudopsis formosus – so called due to the fact that it was described based on specimens captured in the Ria Formosa -, it was validated by “several years of sampling campaigns, taxonomic identifications in the laboratory and studies of benthic ecology in the Ria Formosa and the Algarve coast”, according to IPMA.
The work now published is signed by researchers André N. Carvalho, Fábio Pereira, David Piló, Miguel B. Gaspar and Patricia Esquete.
The article “Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Apseudidae) from southern Portugal with description of the new species Apseudopsis formosus, report of five first records and a biogeographic overview: unexpected expansion or understudied hotspot?”, can be consulted following this link.
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