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Issue: Vol. 4290 No. 1: 6 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.1.12
Page range: 192–200
Abstract views: 91
PDF downloaded: 3

A new freshwater stygobiotic calanoid (Copepoda: Speodiaptominae) from Yunnan, China

Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (CAS-SEABRI), Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, 05282, Myanmar State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiao Chang Dong Lu, Kunming, Yunnan, 650223, China
National Institute of Biology, Večna pot 111, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia School of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska c. 13, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 73 Beijing Dong Lu, Nanjing, 210008,China
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiao Chang Dong Lu, Kunming, Yunnan, 650223, China
Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (CAS-SEABRI), Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, 05282, Myanmar State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiao Chang Dong Lu, Kunming, Yunnan, 650223, China
Crustacea Karstodiaptomus sheni n. gen. n. sp. Cave Southeast Asia

Abstract

Karstodiaptomus sheni n. gen., n. sp. is a new stygobiotic species of Calanoida (Crustacea: Copepoda), described from a cave in Yunnan Province, China. It is the first record of stygobiotic calanoids from China and the fourth species from Asia. To accommodate the new species, a new genus, Karstodiaptomus n. gen., was erected. The new species is distinguished from other representatives in the subfamily Speodiaptominae Borutzky, 1962 by the number of segments in the swimming legs P1–P4 (Exp + Enp) as: 2+2, 2+2, 2+2, 3+2, the armature of the antennule, maxilla, maxilliped, and the structure of the fifth leg. The position of the new species in the subfamily Speodiaptominae is discussed, and a brief note on its ecology is added.

 

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