A new genus of speleophriid copepod (Copepoda Misophrioida) from a cenote in the Yucatan, Mexico with a phylogenetic analysis at the species level
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Standard Standard
In: Zootaxa, Vol. 3821, No. 3, 23.06.2014, p. 321-36.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
HarvardHarvard
APA
CBE
MLA
VancouverVancouver
Author
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - A new genus of speleophriid copepod (Copepoda Misophrioida) from a cenote in the Yucatan, Mexico with a phylogenetic analysis at the species level
AU - Boxshall, Geoff A
AU - Zylinski, Sarah
AU - Jaume, Damià
AU - Iliffe, Thomas M
AU - Suárez-Morales, Eduardo
PY - 2014/6/23
Y1 - 2014/6/23
N2 - A new genus and species of speleophriid copepod, Mexicophria cenoticola gen. et sp. nov., is described based on material collected from a cenote in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. It is characterised by relatively reduced fifth legs that are located adjacent to the ventral midline in both sexes, by the possession of a bulbous swelling on the first antennulary segment in both sexes, and by the reduced setation of the swimming legs. The presence of just one inner margin seta on the second endopodal segment of legs 2 to 4 is a unique feature for the family. A phylogenetic analysis places the new genus on a basal lineage of the family together with its sister taxon, Boxshallia Huys, 1988, from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, and recovers the existing genera as monophyletic units. The zoogeography is discussed at local, regional, ocean basin and global scales.
AB - A new genus and species of speleophriid copepod, Mexicophria cenoticola gen. et sp. nov., is described based on material collected from a cenote in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. It is characterised by relatively reduced fifth legs that are located adjacent to the ventral midline in both sexes, by the possession of a bulbous swelling on the first antennulary segment in both sexes, and by the reduced setation of the swimming legs. The presence of just one inner margin seta on the second endopodal segment of legs 2 to 4 is a unique feature for the family. A phylogenetic analysis places the new genus on a basal lineage of the family together with its sister taxon, Boxshallia Huys, 1988, from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, and recovers the existing genera as monophyletic units. The zoogeography is discussed at local, regional, ocean basin and global scales.
KW - Animal Distribution
KW - Animal Structures
KW - Animals
KW - Body Size
KW - Copepoda
KW - Ecosystem
KW - Female
KW - Male
KW - Mexico
KW - Organ Size
KW - Phylogeny
KW - Species Specificity
KW - Journal Article
U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.3.2
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.3.2
M3 - Article
C2 - 24989747
VL - 3821
SP - 321
EP - 336
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
SN - 1175-5326
IS - 3
ER -