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JPR Advance Access published online on May 17, 2005
Journal of Plankton Research, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbi028
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Received January 24, 2005
Accepted May 9, 2005

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Speleohvarella gamulini gen. et sp. nov., a new copepod (Calanoida, Stephidae) from an anchialine cave in the Adriatic Sea

Frano Krsinic 1*

1 Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Split, Laboratory of Plankton Ecology Dubrovnik, Kneza Damjana Jude 12, HRV-20001, Dubrovnik, Croatia

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Frano Krsinic, E-mail: krsinic{at}labdu.izor.hr


  Abstract

A new copepod genus and species, Speleohvarella gamulini, collected from the anchialine cave Ziva Voda on Hvar Island (Croatia), is described from both sexes. This is the first record of a calanoid copepod found in an Adriatic anchialine cave. The new genus is distinguished from other Stephidae by a combination of the following features: the cephalosome is separate from the first pedigerous somite and the fourth and fifth pedigerous somites are fused; the female urosome has 4 segments, the genital double-somite is symmetrical and the caudal rami asymmetrical with the right longer than the left; antennules of both sexes are symmetrical and 24-segmented, with fusion of ancestral segments II-IV, X-XI, and XXVII-XXVIII; the exopod of antenna is 7-segmented; 2 setae are present on the basal exite of maxillule; in the male the right leg 5 is short and 3-segmented, the left leg elongate and 5-segmented.


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