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Laophontodes T. Scott 1894

Description

Genus Laophontodes T. Scott, 1894

The taxon comprises 14 species (cf. George & Gheerardyn 2015; George 2017). Type species: L. typicus T. Scott, 1894. Additional species: L. bicornis A. Scott, 1896, L. gracilipes Lang, 1936, L. hamatus (Thomson, 1882), L. horstgeorgei George & Gheerardyn, 2015, L. macclintocki Schizas & Shirley, 1994, L. mourois Arroyo, George, Benito & Maldonado, 2003, L. multispinatus Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008, L. ornatus Krishnaswamy, 1957, L. propinquus Brady, 1910, L. sabinegeorgeae George & Gheerardyn, 2015, L. spongiosus Schizas & Shirley, 1994, L. whitsoni T. Scott, 1912; species incertae sedis: L. antarcticus Brady, 1918. An amended generic diagnosis was recently provided by George & Gheerardyn (2015). The setation of swimming legs is summarized for all redescribed species in Table 1.

Notes

Published as part of George, Kai Horst, 2018, Laophontodes typicus T. Scott (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontodinae) - discovering a species complex by morphology, pp. 1-43 in European Journal of Taxonomy 439 on page 4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.439, http://zenodo.org/record/1255053

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ancorabolidae
Genus
Laophontodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Harpacticoida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
T. Scott
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Laophontodes Scott, 1894 sec. George, 2018

References

  • Scott T. 1894. Additions to the fauna of the Firth of Forth. Part III. Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland 12 (3): 231 - 271.
  • George K. H. & Gheerardyn H. 2015. Remarks on the genus Laophontodes T. Scott, 1894 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Ancorabolidae, Laophontodinae), including the (re-) description of four species. Zoologischer Anzeiger 259: 61 - 96. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jcz. 2015.02.009
  • George K. H. 2017. Phylogeny of the taxon Paralaophontodes Lang (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontodinae), including species descriptions, chorological remarks, and a key to species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2): 211 - 241. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zse. 93.11314
  • Schizas N. V. & Shirley T. C. 1994. Two new species of Laophontodes (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Ancorabolidae) from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Zoologica Scripta 23 (3): 205 - 216. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1994. tb 00385. x
  • Arroyo N. L., George K. H., Benito J. & Maldonado M. 2003. A new species of Ancorabolidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the northern coast of Spain: Laophontodes mourois sp. n. Hydrobiologia 498 (1 - 3): 169 - 176. https: // doi. org / 10.1023 / A: 1026274531719
  • Kornev P. N. & Chertoprud E. S. 2008. Harpacticoid copepods from the White Sea: Morphology, Systematics, Ecology. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow.