Two new species of asterocherid (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) associated with a sponge from the Strait of Messina, Italy: taxonomic and ecological traits
JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY(2014)
摘要
Two new species of asterocherid associated with sponges are described from the Mediterranean Sea. They are Psilomyzon laetitiae sp. nov. and Psilomyzon sarcotragusicola sp. nov. The genus Psilomyzon consists of only one known species, P. pauciseta. The two new species can be easily distinguished from the cogener species by reduction of the endopod of leg 4. In P. pauciseta the leg 4 endopod is 3-segmented, with the third segment reduced; in both new species it is 2-segmented, with the second segment carrying an inner projection, possibly homologous to the third segment of the leg 4 endopod of P. pauciseta. In the two new species, the bifid outer process on male leg 4 second endopodal segment seems to be serially homologous to the similar processes on the same segment in legs 1-3, whereas the inner projection may represent a vestigial element of the third endopodal segment of leg 4.
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taxonomy,ecology,associated copepods,sponges,Mediterranean Sea
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