A new species of the genus Stylicletodes Lang, 1936 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Cletodidae) from South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Marine benthic harpacticoid copepods are poorly known in Korea due to the difficulty in obtaining specimens. Currently, the genus Stylicletodes Lang, 1936, which is known to occur in subtidal sediments, has not been reported in this area so far. During surveys on the subtidal meiofauna, we found a new species of Stylicletodes from several subtidal muddy sediments in the Yellow Sea and South Sea.

New information

In this study, we describe both sexes of a new species of Stylicletodes collected from the Yellow Sea and South Sea of Korea. Stylicletodestrifidus sp. nov. differs from its congeners in the following characteristics: the trifid rostrum, relative length ratio of the endopods to exopods on legs 1-4, reduced armature formulae on le

SUBMITTER: Cho K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9836576 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature