Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Island Bathynellacea (Crustacea, Syncarida) database

Ana I. Camacho

doi:10.15468/appzdr

Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Island Bathynellacea (Crustacea, Syncarida) database

Citation

Camacho A I (2021). Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Island Bathynellacea (Crustacea, Syncarida) database. Version 1.8. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/appzdr accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

This is the first published database of Bathynellacea. It includes data of bathynellids (Crustacea, Bathynellacea) from the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Island collected along 64 years (1949 to 2013). The samples come from groundwater (caves, springs, wells and hyporrheic habitat associated rivers) from both sampling campaigns and occasional sampling conducted throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. The dataset lists ocurrence data of bathynellids distribution, sampling sites (with localities, county and geographic coordinates), taxonomic information (from family to species level) and sampling sources (collector and sampling dates) for all records. The data were compiled by A.I. Camacho (AIC) and come from own samples, literature and samples donated by several Spanish and foreign researchers which were studied by AIC. The descriptions of new species and species identifications have been carried out by an expert taxonomist (AIC) with 25 years experience in the bathynellids studies. Many of the sampling sites are type localities of endemic species from Iberian Peninsula. The data set includes 409 samples record corresponding to two families, 12 genera and 60 species, 42 of them formally described plus 18 taxa unpublished. This represents everything known for the study area, and nearly a quarter of all known species of Bathynellacea in the world. The main collectors are J. Notenboom & I. Meijers, R. Rouch et coll., A.I. Camacho et coll. (C. Puch, F. Molinero, A.G. Valdecasas, J. Rodriguez, members of G.E. Edelweiss and G. E. Bathynellidae).

Sampling Description

Study Extent

This collection begins with the sampling campaigns by A.I. Camacho (AIC) in northern Spain for his doctoral thesis in 1983. Most of the data prior to 1983 are bibliographic although some samples studied by AIC were Bathyllenacea obtained between 1976 and 1978 by R. Rouch et coll., in three short sampling trips to different areas of the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, from 1984 to 1986 Jos Notenboom, assisted by Ines Meijers, and later P. van der Hurk & R. Leys (1986), took groundwater samples throughout Spain looking for stygobionts amphipods for the Notenboom doctoral Thesis and all Bathynellacea they found in these samples were also donated to AIC for study. The following years AIC has continued obtaining samples of this fauna throughout Spain in the framework of different research projects. It is worth noting the PASCALIS European project (2002-2004) in which AIC and his team conducted intensive sampling of groundwater fauna in the Cantabrian mountain ranges, increasing substantially the number of Bathynellacea records in Spain. The collection currently consists of over 409 samples with several thousand specimens and more than 2000 scientific preparations among which the typical series of all new species described are included. The specimens are deposited in both the Collection of Crustaceans and the Collection of Tissues and DNA of the MNCN

Sampling

The methods used in collecting this type of samples can be seen in Camacho 1992 and 1994. The samples are fixed in the field in formalin (4%) or ethanol 96% (for DNA studies), or are frozen. Each sample collected is studied under a binocular microscope in order to isolate the bathynellids specimens found. The specimens used for morphological study are stored in alcohol (70%). The specimens used for molecular study were directly frozen at -20ºC, in 400 l of distilled water. A complete dissection of all anatomical parts of specimens of type series is necessary for taxonomic study. The permanent preparations include the dissections together with entire specimens kept in special metal slides, using glycerine gelatine stained with methylene blue as the mounting medium. Anatomical examinations were performed using an oil immersion lens (100X) of an interference microscope. The specific techniques used for molecular analysis for taxonomic application are detailed in Camacho et al., 2002 and Camacho et al., 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Quality Control

Systematics reliability and consistency is backed by the experience of AIC, who made all identifications, in the field of Bathynellacea taxonomy.

Method steps

The collection has been computerized with Excel software, compatible with DarwinCorev2 or Darwincore 1.4

Taxonomic Coverages

This is a collection of Bathynellacea, a group of Crustacea Malacostraca. Most of the collection is identified to species level. The samples without identification to species level, due to the lack adult specimens or the absence of males, have been identified to genus or family level. We have found 12 genera belonging to two families, Parabathynellidae and Bathynellidae. In the Parabathynellidae family five genera have been identified: Iberobathynella (22 species plus seven unpublished), Paraiberobathynella (two species), Hexaiberobathynella (two species), Guadalopebathynella (one species) and Hexabathynella (five species plus one unpublished). In the Bathynellidae family seven genera have been identified: Vejdovskybathynella (four species plus three unpublished), Paradoxiclamousella (two species plus one unpublished), Clamousella (three unpublished species), Hispanobathynella (one species), Bathynella (cf) (three species incerta sedis), Probosciclamousella gen. nov. (unpublished) (two unpublished species) and Guarenabathynella gen. nov. (unpublished) (one unpublished species). In summary we have identified 60 species (18 unpublished), all endemic from Portugal and Spain, and 28 of these, have been described as new species. The other 18 species still pending formal description, are also new to science.

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Crustacea
rank: class
Bathynellacea
rank: order
Bathynellidae
rank: family
Parabathynellidae
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

The study area includes 195 sites throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Island

Bibliographic Citations

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Braga JM (1960) Sur une Parabathynella (Crust. Syncarida) nouvelle du Portugal. Publicaçoes do Instituto de Zoologia "Dr. Augusto Nobre" 75: 9-22. -
Camacho AI (1986) A new species of the genus Hexabathynella (Syncarida, Bathynellacea, Parabathynellidae) from Spain. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 56(1): 123-131. -
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Camacho AI (1987b) La Familia Parabathynellidae en la Península Ibérica: Taxonomía, Filogenia y Biogeografía. Tesis Doctoral (unpublished), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 890 pp. -
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Camacho AI (2003b) An overview of the distribution of the Parabathynellidae (Crustacea Syncarida Bathynellacea) on the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Graellsia 59(1): 63-78. -
Camacho AI (2003c) Four new species of groundwater crustaceans (Syncarida, Bathynellacea, Parabathynellidae) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Natural History 37: 2885-2907. -
Camacho AI (2004) An overview of Hexabathynella (Crustacea, Syncarida, Parabathynellidae) with the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 28: 1249-1261. -
Camacho AI (2005a) One more piece in the genus puzzle: a new species of Iberobathynella Schminke, 1973 (Syncarida, Bathynellacea, Parabathynellidae) from the Iberian Peninsula. Graellsia 61(1): 123-133. -
Camacho AI (2005b) Expanding the taxonomic conundrum: three new species of groundwater crustacean (Syncarida, Bathynellacea, Parabathynellidae) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Natural History 39(21): 1819-1838. -
Camacho AI (2006) An annotated checklist of Syncarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) in the world. Zootaxa 1374:1–54. -
Camacho AI (2007a) The first record of the genus Vejdovskybathynella Serban and Leclerc, 1984 (Syncarida, Bathynellacea, Bathynellidae) in the Iberia Peninsula: three new species. Journal of Natural History 41(45-48): 2817-2841. -
Camacho AI (2007b) A new species of Iberobathynella Schminke, 1973 (Syncarida, Bathynellacea, Parabathynellidae) in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. Graellsia 63(2): 339-347. -
Camacho AI & Coineau N (1987) Un nouveau représentant du genre Iberobathynella Schminke en Espagne: I. rouchi n.sp. (Syncarida, Bathynellacea); remarques phylogénétiques et paléobiogéographiques. Stygologia 3(2): 125-137. -
Camacho AI & Coineau N (1989) Les Bathynellacea d’Espagne: Répartition et Biogéographie. Mémoires de Biospéléologie 16(43): 111-124. -
Camacho AI, Puch C (2008) La Fauna acuática subterránea de Andalucia. En: El Karst de Andalucia: Geoespeleología, Bioespeleología y Presencia Humana. Calaforra JM & Berrocal JA (eds.), 2008. Consejería de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucia, Sevilla. Federación Andaluza de Espeleología: 67-73. -
Camacho AI, Serban E (1998) Tribu des Iberobathynellini nov., diagnoses des taxa nouveaux (Parabathynellidae, Bathynellacea, Podophallocarida). Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 34: 15-75. -
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Camacho AI, Valdecasas AG (2003) Evaluating extinction in rare habitats: an essay. Graellsia, 59(2-3): 409-414. -
Camacho AI, Bello E, Estabrook GF (1997) A statistical approach to the evaluation of characters to estimate evolutionary relationships among the species of the aquatic subterranean genus Iberobathynella (Crustacea, Syncarida). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 60: 221-241. -
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Contacts

Ana I. Camacho
originator
position: Researcher
Museo Nacional de ciencias Naturales, CSIC
c/José Gutierrez Abascal nº2
Madrid
28006
Madrid
ES
email: mcnac22@mncn.csic.es

Ana I. Camacho
metadata author
position: Researcher
Museo Nacional de ciencias Naturales, CSIC
c/José Gutierrez Abascal nº2
Madrid
28006
Madrid
ES
email: mcnac22@mncn.csic.es

Ana I. Camacho
author
position: Researcher
Museo Nacional de ciencias Naturales, CSIC
c/José Gutierrez Abascal nº2
Madrid
28006
Madrid
ES
email: mcnac22@mncn.csic.es

Beatriz A. Dorda
author
position: Curator
Museo Nacional de ciencias Naturales, CSIC
c/José Gutierrez Abascal nº2
Madrid
28006
Madrid
ES
email: balvarez@mncn.csic.es

Isabel Rey
author
position: Curator
Museo Nacional de ciencias Naturales, CSIC
c/José Gutierrez Abascal nº2
Madrid
28006
Madrid
ES
email: isabel.rey@csic.es

Ana I. Camacho
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
Museo Nacional de ciencias Naturales, CSIC
c/José Gutierrez Abascal nº2
Madrid
28006
Madrid
ES
email: mcnac22@mncn.csic.es