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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Synasterope browni
Kornicker & Iliffe 2000
Fig. 78
Synasterope browni
Kornicker & Iliffe 2000: 72–77
, figs. 39–44.—Kornicker
et al.
2002: 85–95, figs. 61–68.
Holotype
.
USNM 194469
, adult female on slide and in alcohol.
Type locality.
Exuma
Sound
, depth
96 m
.
Material.
Great Bahama Bank, Bottomly’s Blue Hole, Sta 99-065:
USNM 1021490
, undissected adult male in alcohol.
Mystery Cave
,
Sta
00-019,
2 specimens
:
USNM 1021491
, partly dissected instar
III
in alcohol;
USNM 1021492
, undissected instar I in alcohol
,
Distribution.
Exuma
Sound, depth
96 m
; Four Shark Cave,
South Andros
Island, depth
27–
33 m
. Bottomly’s Blue Hole, Stocking Island, Great
Exuma
,
Exuma
Cays, depth
27–
29 m
. Mystery Cave, Stocking Island, depth
52 m
.
Supplementary description of adult male
(
Fig. 78
).
Carapace size
(length, height in mm): USNM 1021490, 0.74, 0.45.
Remarks.
The species was collected in Mystery Cave in 1997 (Kornicker
et al.
2002: 85). Its presence in the cave in 1999 shows that it continues to live there and was not affected by environmental stresses during that period.