Preliminary report on the living non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Tunisia with the description of a new Psychrodromus species
Author
Zaibi, Chahira
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Scharf, Burkhard
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Viehberg, Finn Andreas
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Keyser, Dietmar
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Kamoun, Fekri
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Zootaxa
2013
3626
4
499
516
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3626.4.5
1497bc62-3216-4df6-bd7a-70480cde12ac
1175-5326
223016
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Key to the species of the genus
Psychrodromus
(after Karanovic 2012, modified)
1. Length of the carapace at most
1.4 mm
.................................................................... 2
- Length of carapace more than
1.6 mm
..................................................................... 6
2. Posterior seta/claw on the UR with a filamentous tip......................................
P. fontinalis
(Wolf, 1920)
- Posterior seta/claw on the UR without a filamentous tip....................................................... 3
3. Posterior claw of the UR at the most ½ as long as anterior claw..........................
P. turcicus
(Hartmann, 1964)
- Posterior claw of the UR longer than ½ of the anterior claw.................................................... 4
4. Dorsal margin of the carapace only slightly arched, carapace elongated, male clasping organ of maxilliped beside the 2 bristles one respectively two truncated setae.........................................................
P. tunisicus
n. sp.
- Dorsal margin of the carapace distinctly arched, not elongated, male clasping organ without truncated setae............. 5
5. Posterior margin of the carapace broadly rounded, posterior seta/claw on the UR very broad and very slightly narrowing from the basis to the tip.......................................................
P. o l iv a c e u s
(Brady & Norman, 1889)
- Posterior margin of the carapace slightly inclined, posterior seta/claw on the UR very narrow distally......................................................................................
P. betharrami
Danielopol & Baltanás, 1993
6. Dorsal margin highly arched, greatest H in the middle from which point margin slopes equally towards anterior and posterior ends......................................................................
P. peristericus
(Petkovski, 1959)
- Dorsal margin less arched, greatest H situated around the middle from which point margin inclined towards anterior end and more rounded towards posterior end........................................
P. robertsoni
(Brady & Norman, 1889)