<i>Sipadantoniusroihani</i> gen. et sp. nov., a new genus and species of Pseudocyclopidae Giesbrecht, 1893 (Copepoda, Calanoida) from the marine cave "Turtle Tomb" of Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT: A new genus and species of the family Pseudocyclopidae, Sipadantoniusroihani gen. et sp. nov., was described based on specimens collected using a light trap in the marine cave of Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia. The new genus is most related to Pinkertonius, primarily based on the similarity observed in the armament of ancestral segment IV of the male antennules, the armament of the female P5 Exp-3, the segmentation of the male P5, the armament of the maxillular basal exite, and the relative length of the ancestral segment XXVII of the antennules. Nevertheless, it distinguishes itself from Pinkertonius and all other genera of the family by the absence of the lateral seta of the basis of all swimming legs, the presence of an inner seta on the coxa of the female P

SUBMITTER: Boonyanusith C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11645523 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature