TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ballou, Lauren
A1  - Iliffe, Thomas M.
A1  - Kakuk, Brian
A1  - Gonzalez, Brett C.
A1  - Osborn, Karen J.
A1  - Worsaae, Katrine
A1  - Meland, Kenneth
A1  - Broad, Kenneth
A1  - Bracken-Grissom, Heather
A1  - Olesen, Jørgen
T1  - Monsters in the dark: systematics and biogeography of the stygobitic genus Godzillius (Crustacea: Remipedia) from the Lucayan Archipelago
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - Remipedia is a stygobitic group commonly associated with coastal anchialine caves. This class consists of 12 genera, ten of which are found within the Lucayan Archipelago. Herein, we describe a new species within the genus Godzillius from Conch Sound Blue Hole, North Andros Island, Bahamas. Godzillius louriei sp. nov. is the third known remipede observed from a subseafloor marine cave, and the first from the Godzilliidae. Remipedes dwell within notoriously difficult to access cave habitats and thus integrative and comprehensive systematic studies at family or genus level are often absent in the literature. In this study, all species of Godzillius are compared using morphological and molecular approaches. Specifically, the feeding appendages of G. louriei sp. nov., G. fuchsi Gonzalez, Singpiel & Schlagner, 2013 and G. robustus Schram, Yager & Emerson, 1986 were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Species of Godzillius are identified based on the spines of maxilla 1 segment 4 and by the denticles on the lacinia mobilis of the left mandible. A molecular phylogeny using the mitochondrial 16S rRNA and nuclear histone 3 genes recovered G. louriei sp. nov. within the Godzillius clade and 16S genetic distances revealed a 13–15% difference between species of Godzillius.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 751:115-139 
KW  - anchialine
KW  - cave
KW  - new species
KW  - phylogeny
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60862
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-608625
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2021
IS  - 751
SP  - 115
EP  - 139
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -