Gaviria, S. & D. Defaye. (2015). Description of Elaphoidella paramuna s.sp. (Canthocamptidae), a new harpacticoid copepod from Colombia. Crustaceana. 88 (9): 1003-1029.

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10.1163/15685403-00003464 [view]

Gaviria, S. & D. Defaye

2015

88 (9): 1003-1029

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A new species of harpacticoid copepod was discovered on submerged mosses of a high Andean lake in Colombia. The diagnostic characters of the male and female canthocamptid Elaphoidella paramuna n. sp. are based on the chaetotaxy of legs 1 to 4, morphology of leg 5, armature of anal urosomite, size and armature of anal operculum and morphology, armature and ornamentation of caudal rami. It belongs to the group X of Lang (1948); its relationships with Elaphoidella pectinata, E. armata and E. brevifurcata are discussed. The 35 species and subspecies of Elaphoidella known in the Neotropical region are assigned to groups I, II, VII, VIII and X of Lang’s system (1948). Identification keys to Colombian Elaphoidella species are provided.

America, South

Systematics, Taxonomy

Copepoda

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