Four new species of Gomphocythere (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa |
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Authors: | Lisa E. Park Koen Martens |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Geology, University of Akron, Akron, OH, 44325-4101, U.S.A.;(2) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Four new species of the ostracod genus Gomphocythere are described from Lake Tanganyika (East Africa): Gomphocythere downingi n. sp. G. coheni n. sp., G. wilsoni n. sp., and G. woutersi n. sp. All species are endemic to the lake and are found within a variety of substrates and depths. The addition of these four new species brings the total number of endemic Gomphocythere species in Lake Tanganyika to nine. Other Gomphocythere species are known from water bodies throughout East and South Africa and in the Levant. Brooding is an important, but not a unique, preadaptation for the persistence and taxic prolific speciation of this lineage in Lake Tanganyika. |
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Keywords: | Crustacea Ostracoda Gomphocythere taxonomy morphology Africa Lake Tanganyika ancient lakes benthos |
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