TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sousa, Francisco Diogo R.
A1  - Elmoor-Loureiro, Lourdes Maria Abdu
A1  - Freiry, Raquel Fontoura
A1  - Álvarez-Silva, Juan Pablo
A1  - Stenert, Cristina
A1  - Maltchik, Leonardo
A1  - Lopes, Paloma M.
A1  - Bozelli, Reinaldo Luiz
T1  - A new species of Acantholeberis (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) suggests an ancient geographic distribution of the genus in South America
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - Acantholeberis smirnovi Paggi & Herrera-Martinez, 2020 (Cladocera: Acantholeberidae) was recently described from Andean habitats in South America. The presence of a population on the eastern coast of the continent brought the hypothesis of a new Neotropical species different from A. smirnovi. This hypothesis was confirmed from morphological, ecological and biogeographic evidence. Acantholeberis accolismaris Sousa, Elmoor-Loureiro & Álvarez-Silva sp. nov. differs from A. smirnovi in the morphology of the head, the valves and the limbs (especially the second and third limbs). Species of Acantholeberis are adapted to live in acid water bodies, with A. accolismaris sp. nov. presenting the same ecological requirements. However, the new species is adapted to live in temporary ponds near the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil in altitudes ranging between 4 and 15 meters above sea level. Considering that Acantholeberidae is an ancient taxon with a pre-Mesozoic origin, geological and environmental changes may have been relevant to speciation and to the observed biogeographic pattern of species of Acantholeberis in Neotropics.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 821:40-57 
KW  - altitude
KW  - biogeography
KW  - limbs
KW  - morphology
KW  - taxonomyv
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68123
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-681234
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2022
IS  - 821
SP  - 40
EP  - 56
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -