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Brittle stars from the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago: morphological and molecular data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2015

Carlos Alberto de Moura Barboza ,
Gustavo Mattos  and
Paulo Cesar Paiva
Carlos Alberto de Moura Barboza*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CEP 21941-590, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rua Outeiro de São João Batista, s/n, CEP 24001-970, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gustavo Mattos
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CEP 21941-590, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Departamento de Ecologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CEP 21941-590, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paulo Cesar Paiva
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CEP 21941-590, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rua Outeiro de São João Batista, s/n, CEP 24001-970, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Departamento de Ecologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CEP 21941-590, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Correspondence should be addressed to: C.A.M. Barboza, Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rua Outeiro de São João Batista, s/n, CEP 24001-970, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil email: carlosambarboza@gmail.com
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Abstract

Morphological and molecular data on brittle stars from the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, a very small isolated group of islets situated between South America and Africa, are hereby presented. We found no endemic ophiuroids. Instead, the five species, Amphipholis squamata, Ophiactis lymani, Ophiactis savignyi, Ophiocomella ophiactoides and Ophiothrix (Ophiothrix) angulata, are either cosmopolitan or derived from the equatorial western Atlantic region. Results indicated a western Atlantic colonization and highlighted the existence of cryptic species in the genus Ophiactis.

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oceanic islandsequatorial Atlantic Oceanophiuroidsmitochondrial sequencesphylogeography
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e16
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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