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The Occurrence Of Lightiella Jones, 1961 (Crustacea: Cephalocarida) In Mobile Bay, Alabama, Richard W. Heard, Gary D. Goeke
The Occurrence Of Lightiella Jones, 1961 (Crustacea: Cephalocarida) In Mobile Bay, Alabama, Richard W. Heard, Gary D. Goeke
Gulf and Caribbean Research
During July 1979, two adult specimens belonging to the cephalocaridan genus Lightiella Jones, 1961 were collected in a box core sample taken at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama. These two specimens were compared to the four described species of Lightiella, and found to be most similar to the northeastern Atlantic species of L. incisa Gooding, 1963 and L. floridana McLaughlin, 1976. Due to a combination of differences in the thoracopodal setation and incisor process of the mandible, the Mobile Bay form cannot at this time be assigned to any of the described species of Lightiella. The two …