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Issue: Vol. 3115 No. 1: 1 Dec. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-12-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3115.1.2
Page range: 21–28
Abstract views: 101
PDF downloaded: 5

Speleonectes williamsi, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Bahamas

Institute for Animal Ecology and Cell Biology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Bünteweg 17d, D-30559 Hannover, Germany Biology Department, Northeastern University, 134 Mugar Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Section of Biology, Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
Research Associate, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560
Crustacea remipede cryptic species pseudo-cryptic species glands Speleonectidae

Abstract

We describe a new species of the genus Speleonectes (Crustacea, Remipedia, Nectiopoda) from an anchialine cave on Grand Bahama Island in the northern Bahamas. Speleonectes williamsi n. sp. is morphologically highly similar to Speleonectes emersoni from the Dominican Republic. However, morphological differences between the two species were detected in dissected body parts, such as the setal patterns of the antennae and trunk limbs, the terminal claws of maxillae and maxillipeds, and the frontal filaments.

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