A new species of Notodiaptomus from the Ecuadorian Andes (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae).

ABSTRACT: Notodiaptomus cannarensissp. n. is described from a reservoir on the Amazonian slope of the Ecuadorian Andes. The new species is unique among diaptomid calanoid copepods in the display of hypertrophied, symmetrical wing-like extensions at each side of the female composite genital somite. Furthermore, it displays a female urosome reduced to only two somites due to the incorporation of abdominal somites III and IV to the composite genital double-somite, and a male right fifth leg with the outer spine of second exopodal segment recurved and implanted proximally on margin. It differs from any other Notodiaptomus in the display of a large rectangular lamella on proximal segment of exopod of male right fifth leg. The species is currently known only from Mazar reservoir, a eu

SUBMITTER: Alonso M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5673853 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature