Deutella incerta
Creators: name: Paz-Ríos, Carlos E.
name: Guerra-García, José M.
name: Ardisson, Pedro-Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Caprellidae
Deutella
Deutella incerta

description: Deutella incerta (Mayer 1903)   
(Figure 5)  
 Luconacia incerta Mayer, 1903: 49–50, pl. 2, figs 11–14, pl. 6, figs 73–75, pl. 9, figs 21, 40, 57. McCain, 1968: 53–54, 68–72, figs 33–35. McCain and Steinberg, 1970: 53.   
 Protellopsis stebbingii Pearse, 1908: 30–32, fig. 4; 1912: 379. Kunkel, 1910: 111–113, fig. 43.   
 Deutella incerta Steinberg and Dougherty, 1957; Gable and Lazo-Wasem, 1987: 635– 636, fig. 4. Ortiz et al., 2002, fig. 29. Guerra-García, 2003b: 1062–1065, fig. 3. Foster, Thomas, et al., 2004: 162–164, fig. 4. Diaz et al., 2005: 3–5, 15, fig. 6. Guerra-García, Krapp-Schickel, et al., 2006: 164–168, figs 9–11. Winfield, Escobar-Briones, et al., 2007: 47, fig. 18.    Material examined   
Station 1, three ovigerous females, CYMX-1- CY. Station 2, one male, one female, CYMX-2- CY. Station 3, three males, one juvenile, CYMX-3- CY. Station 4, two males, three females, CYMX-4- CY. Station 5, two males, two females (one ovigerous), CYMX- 5- CY. Station 6, two males, two females (one ovigerous), CYMX-6- CY. Station 7, one ovigerous female, CYMX-7- CY. Station 13, nine males, three ovigerous females, CYMX- 8- CY. Station 14, one male, CYMX-9- CY. Station 15, two males, two females (one male and one female from this station used for figures), CYMX-10- CY. Station 10, four males, two ovigerous females, 28 November 2010, CYMX-20- CY. Station 17, two males, two ovigerous females, CYMX-22- CY. Station 19, two ovigerous females, CYMX-23- CY. Station 29, three females, CYMX-49- CY. Station 30, one male, one female, CYMX- 50- CY.   Type locality   
Off Mobile Bay, Alabama.   Distribution   
Northwestern Atlantic; Gulf of Mexico; Caribbean Sea (McCain 1968; Oliva-Rivera 2003; Foster, Thomas, et al. 2004; Diaz et al. 2005; Ortiz and Lalana 2010).   Records in the Gulf of Mexico   
MEX: Yalahau Lagoon (Oliva-Rivera and Jiménez-Cueto 1997; present study); Campeche Sound (Winfield et al. 2006); Celestun; Progreso; Dzilam Bravo; Rio Lagartos; El Cuyo; Cabo Catoche (present study). USA: Mississippi-Alabama continental shelf (Mayer 1903); Strait of Florida (Pearse 1908); between Delta of the Mississippi River and Cedar Key (Pearse 1912); Alligator Harbor (Steinberg and Dougherty 1957); Port Isabel; Puerto Aransas; Mobile Bay; Tampa Bay, Key Largo (McCain 1968); St Andrew Bay; St Joseph Bay (Foster, Thomas, et al. 2004).   Habitat   
 Deutella incerta shows predatory habits to obtain its food; however, detritus is the dominant stomach content reported (Caine 1974). This species is widely distributed in the temperate and tropical areas of the western North Atlantic (McCain 1968), and has been collected on mangrove roots, Sargassum sp., Thalassia sp., sponges, hydroids, alcyonarians, ascidians, coral rubble, sandy bottom, detritus and it has occasionally been taken in plankton tows (Guerra-García 2003b; Oliva-Rivera 2003; Diaz et al. 2005; Guerra- García, Krapp-Schickel, et al. 2006). The depth range reported is shallow water extending to 1470 m (Winfield et al. 2006; Winfield and Escobar-Briones 2008; LeCroy et al. 2009).    Remarks   
 Steinberg and Dougherty (1957) synonymized the monotypic Luconacia of Mayer (1903) with Deutella, transferring L. incerta to Deutella. McCain (1968) re-established Luconacia and claimed several important differences between the genera. Finally Gable and Lazo-Wasem (1987) described a transitional species (Deutella aspiducha Gable and Lazo-Wasem 1987) that allowed them to re-unite Deutella and Luconacia, which was later supported by Guerra-García (2003b).   
 McCain (1968) did not mention the record of D. incerta to Tampa Bay, although it is represented in his map. Thereby it is assumed to be a valid record.
description: Published as part of Paz-Ríos, Carlos E., Guerra-García, José M. & Ardisson, Pedro-Luis, 2014, REVIEW ARTICLE Caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Gulf of Mexico, with observations on Deutella mayeri, redescription of Metaprotella hummelincki, a taxonomic key and zoogeographical comments, pp. 2517-2578 in Journal of Natural History 48 (41 - 42) on pages 2531-2534, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.931481, http://zenodo.org/record/5194444