New species of Stygiopontius (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from a deep–sea hydrothermal vent at the East Pacific Rise |
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| Authors: | ARTHUR G. HUMES |
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| Affiliation: | Boston Univercity Murine Program, Murine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Three dirivultid copepods, Stygiopontius puxillifer sp.n . and S. appositus sp.n., unusual in having pegs along the ventral edges of the cephalosome, and S. lurniger sp.n., distinguiahcd from congeners by the modificd thorn-like seta on the second segment of the maxilliped, arc dcscrihcd from a depth of 2616 m at 21°N in the eastern Pacific. |
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