Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Anchialine Caves and Ocean Blue Holes
Author
Kornicker, Louis S.
Author
Iliffe, Thomas M.
Author
Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth
text
Zootaxa
2007
2007-08-31
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1565.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1565.1.1
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Danielopolina
Kornicker & Sohn 1976
Type
species.
Danielopolina carolynae
Kornicker & Sohn 1976
.
Composition.
This genus contains two subgenera
D. (
Humphreysella
)
Kornicker & Danielopol
2006
in
Kornicker
et al.
2006
and
D. (
Danielopolina
)
Kornicker
et al.
2006
. Members of both subgenera are represented in the present collection.
Correction.
Kornicker & Iliffe (1998: 84)
stated
Danielopolina
species A
was collected in Open Rock Cave. The collection site should have been listed as Oven Rock Cave.
Diagnosis of subgenera.
Humphreysella
is without a posterior bristle on the protopod of the second antenna.
Danielopolina
bears a posterior bristle on the protopod of the second antenna.
Discussion of first antennae.
The first and second segments of the first antennae of the adult female
holotype
and
paratype
of
D. palmeri
are linear (
Fig. 12
a–c
), whereas those segments of the adult female first antennae of the
holotype
and a
paratype
of
D. exuma
Kornicker & Iliffe 1998
illustrated by
Kornicker & Iliffe (1998
: fig. 51d–f) form a right angle. The first and second segments of the first antenna of another adult female of a
paratype
of
D. exuma
examined herein also form a right angle (
Fig. 13
j
). A survey of some of the literature in which species of
Danielopolina
have been described (
Kornicker & Iliffe 1989a
, 1998, 2000) shows that some illustrations of the first antennae have linear first and second segments, and some show the two segments at right angles, and juveniles as well as adults of both sexes have first antennae of both forms. Examination of whole specimens showed that when the first and second segments are at right angles, the first antenna is partly withdrawn inside the carapace; whereas when the two segments are linear segments two– eight extend horizontally outside the carapace between the anterior edges of the valves. Apparently, when an extrinsic muscle is taut, segments one and two are linear. The various angles between the first and second segments of first antennae of species of
Thaumatoconcha
illustrated by
Kornicker & Sohn (1976
: fig. 7) indicate that a similar mechanism also operates in members of that genus.