New hyperbenthic species of Misophriopsis and Misophriella, first record of misophrioid copepods (Crustacea) from Antarctic waters |
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Authors: | P Martínez Arbizu D Jaume |
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Institution: | FB7/AG Zoosystematik und Morphologie, Universit?t Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany e-mail: martinez@cem.ufpr.br, DE Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Ctra. Valldemossa, km 7’5, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain, ES
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Abstract: | Misophrioid copepods are reported for the first time from Antarctic waters. A species of each of the genera Misophriopsis and Misophriella is described from hyperbenthic layers of the continental shelf of the eastern Weddell Sea. The genus Misophria is also reported from these waters. Misophriopsis australis sp. nov. is the fifth representative of this widely distributed genus, previously reported from the North Atlantic, the China
Sea, and both NW and NE quadrants of the Pacific Ocean. Misophriella schminkei sp. nov. is the second representative of the genus, known to date only from a single female caught in North Atlantic bathyal
depths. Traces of subdivisions on antennary exopodal segments of the latter species suggest that the first segment may be
a triple segment, while the second and terminal segments may be double segments. In addition, the mandibular exopod of this
taxon indicates that a six-segmented ramus with setal formula 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 may represent the ground pattern in Copepoda.
The presence of parts of a cyclopinid copepod in the gut of M. schminkei sp. nov. indicates that this species may be carnivorous.
Received: 12 November 1998 / Received in revised form: 26 July 1999 / Accepted: 27 July 1999 |
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Keywords: | Misophrioid copepods Antarctic waters Misophriopsis Misophriella Crustacea |
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