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
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Deeveya medix
Kornicker
1990
in
Kornicker
et al.
1990
Fig. 40
Deeveya medix
Kornicker
1990
in
Kornicker
et al.
1990: 44
, figs. 22f, 27, 28, 29f, 30.
Holotype
.
USNM 193592
, adult male.
Type locality.
Sagittarius Blue Hole, Sweeting’s Cay,
Grand Bahama
Island, Little Bahama Bank.
Material.
Type
locality: Collected
29 May 1989
:
USNM 1021442
,
1 adult
female in alcohol. Collected
29 Mar 1991
:
USNM 1021443
,
1 adult
male,
1 adult
female, both in alcohol.
Sta
01-016
:
USNM 1021444
,
1 adult
female in alcohol
;
USNM 1021445
,
7 specimens
in alcohol.
Basil Minn’s Blue Hole
,
Great
Exuma
Island
,
Great Bahama Bank
:
Sta
00-001
:
USNM 1021446
,
2 adult
females in alcohol
;
USNM 1021447
,
1
partly dissected adult male in alcohol
;
USNM 1021448
,
3
undissected adults in alcohol (sex not determined). Virgo Blue Hole,
Sweeting's Cay
,
Grand Bahama
Island
,
Little Bahama Bank
,
Sta
01-015
:
USNM 1021449
,
3 specimens
in alcohol
.
Distribution.
Little Bahama Bank, Sweeting's Cay (Sagittarius Blue Hole and Virgo Blue Hole). Great Bahama Bank, Great
Exuma
Island (Basil Minn’s Blue Hole).
Supplementary description of adult female.
Carapace Size (length, height in mm): USNM 1021442, 1.69, 1.23; USNM 1021443, 1.66, 1.22.; USNM 1021446, 1.68, 1.28; USNM 1022179, 1.68, 1.28; USNM 1021444, 1.70, 1.29.
FIGURE 40.
Deeveya medix
Kornicker 1990
in
Kornicker
et al.
1990
, USNM 1021387, adult male:
a,
complete specimen from right side and detail of surface structures (black spots are bright spots in transmitted light), length 1.70 mm;
b,
copulatory organ on left side of posterior part of body. Scale equals 0.10 mm (
a–
detail
)
and 0.02 mm (
b
).
Supplementary description of adult male
(
Fig. 40
). Carapace similar in shape and ornamentation to that of
holotype
(
Fig. 40
a
).
Carapace size
(length, height in mm). USNM 1021447, 1.70, 1.31; USNM 1021443, 1.65, 1.17.
Mandible:
1st endopod segment with 6 bristles (1 anterior, 1 posterior, 4 medial).
Genitalia
(
Fig. 40
b
): Similar to that of
holotype
.
Remarks.
Kornicker
et al.
(1990: 44)
reported this species in Sagittarius Blue Hole from collections
made in 1984 and 1987. The present collections made in 1989 and 2001 from the same cave show that the species continued to live in the cave and was not affected by intervening climactic events. The present collection from Basil Minn’s Blue Hole, Great
Exuma
Island, is the first record of the species from the Great Bahama Bank. The species is reported for the first time in Virgo Blue Hole, Little Bahama Bank.