Passos et al. (2021) just published a paper in Frontiers in Marine Science. In this contribution, we described a new species of genus Scutopus, S. variabilis Passos, Corrêa & Miranda, from the Brazilian Southern and Southeastern coasts. This is the first record of a Limifossoridae from Brazilian coast, a region that had some doubtful records of Scutopus cf. megaradulatus for Rio de Janeiro. We also examined the type materials of American Scutopus (S. megaradulatus Salvini-Plawen, 1972 from the Caribbean Sea and S. chilensis Salvini-Plawen, 1972 from Chile), in American Museum of Natural History, New York (AMNH), and the samples of S. megaradulatus from North Carolina, analyzed by Ami Scheltema in the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, Cambridge (MCZ), furnishing new photographs of the type specimens. Moreover, we made species distribution modelling of Scutopus species from the Atlantic Ocean, which revealed patterns that surprised us. The European species S. ventrolineatus Salvini-Plawen, 1968 and S. robustus Salvini-Plawen, 1970, which in the literature are recorded as co-occuring species in Scandinavia and Mediterranen Sea, had potential areas in a way to prevent overlapping areas. Scutopus robustus tends to occur in more northern areas, like Iceland, Scotland and North of Norway, whereas S. ventrolineatus tends to occur in southern areas, like South of Norway and English Channel. This curious pattern inspired us to use a Brazilian popular saying in the title: Better alone than in bad company (Portuguese: “Antes só do que mal acompanhado”).
The paper can be downloaded in the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.669478/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Marine_Science&id=669478 Marcel Miranda
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