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 Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity

Zootaxa 1866: 1-574  (3 Sep. 2008) 
Edited by PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU & SASKIA BRIX (Germany)
ISBN 978-1-86977-259-8 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-86977-260-4 (Online edition)

Zootaxa 1866: 1-4 (3 Sep. 2008
Title & copyright page, table of contents

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Zootaxa 1866: 5-6 (3 Sep. 2008) 17 references                             
Editorial: Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity
PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU & SASKIA BRIX (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 7-68 (3 Sep. 2008) 32 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
New Australian Hexactinellida (Porifera) with a revision of Euplectella aspergillum
KONSTANTIN R. TABACHNICK (Russia), DORTE JANUSSEN (Germany) AND LARISA L. MENSCHENINA (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1866: 69-94 (3 Sep. 2008) 19 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Revision of the genus Pozziella (Porifera: Poecilosclerida) with description of three new species from the eastern Pacific
GUILLERMO DÍAZ-AGRAS (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1866: 95-135 (3 Sep. 2008) 17 plates; 49 references                           Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) of the deep Weddell Sea, Antarctic
ALEXANDER S. PLOTKIN (Russia) & DORTE JANUSSEN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 136-150 (3 Sep. 2008) 6 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Melvicalathis, a new brachiopod genus (Terebratulida: Chlidonophoridae) from deep sea volcanic substrates, and the biogeographic significance of the mid-ocean ridge system

DAPHNE E. LEE (New Zealand), MURRAY R. GREGORY (New Zealand), CARSTEN LÜTER (Germany),
OLGA N. ZEZINA (Russia), JEFFREY H. ROBINSON (New Zealand) & DAVID M. CHRISTIE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1866: 151-174 (3 Sep. 2008) 11 plates; 39 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Three new species of free-living nematodes from the South-East Atlantic Abyss (DIVA I Expedition)
ALEXEI V. TCHESUNOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1866: 175-186 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
New Acanthomeniidae (Solenogastres, Cavibelonia) from the abyssal Angola Basin
ESTHER GIL-MANSILLA, ÓSCAR GARCÍA-ÁLVAREZ & VICTORIANO URGORRI (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1866: 187-204 (3 Sep. 2008) 9 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Description of two new deep-water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea),
with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean*
ENRICO SCHWABE & WINFRIED ENGL (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 205-222 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 74 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca)
ENRICO SCHWABE (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 223-262 (3 Sep. 2008) 25 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Argestes angolaensis sp. nov. (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Argestidae) from the Angola Basin (Southeast Atlantic), and the phylogenetic characterization of the taxon Argestes Sars, including the redescription of A. mollis Sars, 1910, and A. reductus
(Itô, 1983)
KAI HORST GEORGE (Germnay)

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Zootaxa 1866: 263-276 (3 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new species of Ischnomesidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Southern Ocean, Stylomesus weddellensis sp. nov.
ANGELIKA BRANDT & HANS GEORG ANDRES (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 277-289 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Caudacalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida): a new benthopelagic genus from the abyss of the tropical South Atlantic and
Southern Ocean
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA (Germany) & KNUD SCHULZ (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 290-302 (3 Sep. 2008) 8 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new genus and species of Brychiopontiidae Humes, 1974 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) associated
with an abyssal holothurian in the Northeast Pacific nodule province
RADITH MAHATMA (Germany), PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU (Germany) & VIATCHESLAV N.
IVANENKO (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1866: 303-322 (3 Sep. 2008) 13 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new and exceptional species of Bradya Boeck, 1873 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from the abyssal
plain of the Angola Basin and the variability of deep-sea Harpacticoida
SYBILLE SEIFRIED & PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 323-336 (3 Sep. 2008) 6 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new species of deep-sea Tegastidae (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from 9°50´N on the East Pacific Rise,
with remarks on its ecology
SABINE GOLLNER (Austria), VIATCHESLAV N. IVANENKO (Russia) & PEDRO MARTINEZ ARBIZU
(Germany)
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Zootaxa 1866: 337-348 (3 Sep. 2008) 12 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First record of the genus Pseudomesochra T. Scott (Harpacticoida: Pseudotachidiidae) in the South Atlantic with description of a deep-sea species: Pseudomesochra longiseta
sp. nov.
DANIELLE MENOR VASCONCELOS (Brazil), KAI HORST GEORGE (Germany) & PAULO JORGE PARREIRA
DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1866: 349-372 (3 Sep. 2008) 10 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First Record of a living Platycopida (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Antarctic waters and a Discussion on Cytherella serratula
(Brady, 1880)
SIMONE N. BRANDÃO (Germnay)

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Zootaxa 1866: 373-452 (3 Sep. 2008) 47 plates; 63 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
New species of Bairdioidea (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from the Southern Ocean and discussions on Bairdoppilata simplex (Brady, 1880), ?Bairdoppilata labiata (Müller, 1908) and Bythopussella aculeata
(Müller, 1908)
SIMONE N. BRANDÃO (Germnay)

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Zootaxa 1866: 453-466 (3 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Two new deep-water species of Caecoserolis Wägele, 1994 (Isopoda, Sphaeromatidea, Serolidae) from off North
Island, New Zealand
NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1866: 467-481 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First record and new species of the genus Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the deep Weddell Sea Basin

STEFANIE KAISER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 482-492 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Prochelator tupuhi sp. nov., the first record of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Crustacea: Isopoda) from New Zealand
waters
SASKIA BRIX (Germnay) & NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1866: 493-539 (3 Sep. 2008) 26 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Results of the DIVA-1 Expedition of RV “Meteor” (Cruise M48:1): Three new species of Munnopsidae Sars, 1864
from abyssal depths of the Angola Basin (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
ANDRE MURSCH, NILS BRENKE & JOHANN WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1866: 540-554 (3 Sep. 2008) 9 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Eurycope crassiramis sp. nov., a new species of Munnopsidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the Weddell Sea,
Southern Ocean
OLGA A. GOLOVAN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1866: 555-574 (3 Sep. 2008) 11 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Microcope gen. nov.—a new deep-sea genus of Munnopsidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota), with description of
two new species from the Southern Hemisphere
MARINA V. MALYUTINA (Russia)

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