JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 1 | NUMBER 3 | PAGES 231-239 | 1979
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Description of Labidocera farrani sp. nov., a pontellid copepod known from eastern and northern Australian waters, (Crustacea, Copepoda)
Department of Zoology, University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia
Received on June 1, 1979; revised on September 1, 1979; accepted on September 1, 1979 Both sexes of a form previously recorded from Australian waters are described, and the species is named after its original discoverer. Features of the new species and of related species from the super-species detruncata, are tabulated and discussed.