TROGLOCYCLOPS-JANSTOCKI, NEW GENUS, NEW SPECIES, A VERY PRIMITIVE CYCLOPID (COPEPODA, CYCLOPOIDA) FROM AN ANCHIALINE CAVE IN THE BAHAMAS Academic Article

abstract

• Troglocyclops janstocki is proposed to accommodate cyclopids from Hatchet Bay Cave, Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. The species is the most primitive member of the Halicyclopinae because of the presence of 15-segmented antennules, mandibular palp reduced to 3 setae, one of them quite long and plumose, a bisegmented maxillary endopodite, and 3 segments in the maxilliped endopodite. These copepods possess the first pediger still distinct, being partially enclosed dorsally and laterally by a carapace-like extension of the posterior margin of the dorsal cephalic shield. This latter character represents a plesiomorphic state shared with the primitive cyclopinids and, within the Cyclopidae, only with the Euryteinae. The new taxon is the only known species of Halicyclopinae having two apical spines on the terminal segment of the exopodite of legs 2 to 4, and the intercoxal sclerites of the legs 1 and 2 sexually dimorphic. The phylogenetic importance of each of these characters is discussed. 1994 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

authors

• Iliffe, Thomas

published proceedings

• HYDROBIOLOGIA

author list (cited authors)

• DAROCHA, C., & ILIFFE, T. M.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• DAROCHA, CEF||ILIFFE, TM

publication date

• January 1994

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Hydrobiologia: the international journal on limnology and marine sciences  Journal

keywords

• Anchialine Caves
• Caribbean Fauna
• Copepoda
• Cyclopoida
• Taxonomy
• Troglocyclops

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/bf00229929

start page

• 105

end page

• 111

volume

• 293

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00229929