Johnwellsia, a new intertidal genus of Parastenheliidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Taiwan Strait, China, including a review of the family and key to genera
Author
Huys, Rony
0000-0003-2411-7003
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K.
r.huys@nhm
Author
Mu, Fanghong
0000-0002-6172-9271
College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-12
5051
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5051.1.13
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Paraleptomesochra wellsi
Rao, 1972
Original description.
Rao (1972)
:
Fig. 4
.
Type
locality.
India
,
Andhra Pradesh
,
Visakhapatnam
(formerly Waltair),
17°43’30”N
83°20’30”E
; intertidal zone, fine and medium sand,
10–30 cm
below surface near half-tide level
.
Notes.
Rao (1972)
describes the male antennule as 7-segmented with the sixth segment being partly subdivided. The segmentation pattern is here provisionally reinterpreted as 9-segmented due to segment 4 (
XIII
) having been overlooked and the three segments distal to the geniculated accepted here as fully discrete.
Rao’s (1972
:
Fig. 4D
) illustration of two aesthetascs originating from the swollen segment 5 must be attributed to an observational error.
The species was subsequently recorded from two localities (Konark = Konarak, Puri) in
Odisha
(formerly
Orissa
) in the
Bay of Bengal
(
Rao 1989
)
.