Copepods (Cyclopoida) associated with ascidian hosts: Ascidicolidae, Buproridae, Botryllophilidae, and Enteropsidae, with descriptions of 84 new species
Author
Kim, Il-Hoi
m@gwnu
Author
Boxshall, Geoff A.
m@gwnu
text
Zootaxa
2021
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4978.1.1
1175-5326
4820443
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Haplostomella bilobata
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 112
,
113
)
Type material.
Holotype
♀
(MNHN-IU-2014-21526),
2 ♀♀
paratypes
(MNHN-IU-2014-21527), and
2 ♀♀
,
1 ♂
paratypes
(dissected, MNHN-IU-2014-17389) from
Apl
ẚdẚum
sp.;
Kerguelen Islands
, no other collection data.
FIG. 111.
eaplçstçmella
tuberculata
(Chatton & Harant, 1924)
, female. A, habitus, dorsal; B, posterior part of body, dorsal; C, posterior part of body, left; D, caudal rami, dorsal; E, antennule; F, antenna; G, labrum; H, mandible; I, maxilla; J, maxilliped; K, leg 1; L. leg 5. Scale bars: A, 0.2 mm; B, C, 0.1 mm; D, 0.05 mm; E-L, 0.02 mm.
FIG. 112.
eaplçstçmella bẚlçbata
sp. nov.
, female. A, habitus, right; B, habitus, dorsal; C, genitoabdomen, dorsal; D, right caudal ramus, ventral; E, antennule; F, antenna; G, labrum; H, maxilla; I, maxilliped; J, leg 1; K, leg 5; L. genital aperture. Scale bars: A, B, 0.2 mm; C, 0.1 mm; D-K, 0.02 mm; L, 0.05 mm.
FIG. 113.
eaplçstçmella bẚlçbata
sp. nov.
, male. A, habitus, dorsal; B, urosome, ventral; C, right caudal ramus, dorsal; D, maxilliped; E, leg 1; F, leg 2; G, leg 3; H, leg 4. Scale bars: A, 0.1 mm; B, 0.05; C-H, 0.02 mm.
Etymology.
The specific name alludes to the presence of a pair of lobes on the labrum of the new species.
Description of female.
Body (
Fig. 112A, B
) eruciform, consisting of unsegmented anterior part and short abdomen. Body length
2.04 mm
; maximum width 496 μm (across region of leg 4). Anterior half of body slightly tapering anteriorly; cephalosome narrower than metasome, incompletely defined from metasome by posterolateral margins of cephalic shield. Cylindrical metasomal region incorporating leg 5, with 5 pairs of small dorsolateral folds; last pair at level of leg 5 much smaller than anterior 4 pairs. Genital somite completely fused to metasome; paired genital apertures (
Fig. 112L
) positioned dorsolaterally. Genital operculum bearing 3 teeth inside. Abdomen (
Fig. 112C
) tapering, 3-segmented, but articulation incomplete between last 2 somites. Caudal ramus (
Fig. 112D
) about 2.9 times longer than wide (69×24 μm), slightly longer than anal somite, with 5 subequal, naked setae (1 lateral and 4 distal); lateral seta positioned at 63% of ramus length. Egg sac (
Fig. 112B
) 1.40×
0.34 mm
; each egg about 115 μm in diameter.
Rostrum absent. Antennule (
Fig. 112E
) 100 μm long, 2-segmented; proximal segment with 9 setae; distal seg- ment small, only 17 μm long, subdivided in middle, with 5 setae and 1 short aesthetasc; all setae naked. Antenna (
Fig. 112F
) indistinctly 2-segmented; proximal segment unarmed; distal segment with 1 seta on inner margin, 1 short, blunt seta plus 1 lobate process subdistally, and tipped with 1 seta.
Labrum (
Fig. 112G
) short and broad, characteristically with pair of large lobes on posterior margin. Mandible and maxillule absent. Maxilla (
Fig. 112H
) distinctly 2-segmented; broad proximal segment unarmed; distal segment shorter and narrower than proximal segment, distally armed with 2 setae; outer seta pinnate, small medial seta naked and located on tip of digitiform process of segment. Maxilliped (
Fig. 112I
) consisting of 2 segments plus terminal claw; proximal segment broad and unarmed; distal segment as long as wide, with short medial margin and longer outer margin, bearing 1 broad, plate-like process and 1 acute spine near mediodistal corner; terminal claw stout with bicuspid tip.
Leg 1 (
Fig. 112J
) consisting of protopod, exopod, and endopod; protopod obscurely defined at medial side, with 1 seta on outer margin; exopod distally bilobed, anterior lobe claw-like, with bicuspid tip, posterior lobe tipped with 1 small seta; endopod large, semicircular, more than twice as wide as exopod, and ornamented with rows of minute spinules. Legs 2-4 same as leg 1.
Leg 5 (
Fig. 112A, K
) as rudimentary lobe tipped with 2 small setae.
Description of male.
Body (
Fig. 113A
) narrow, cyclopiform, clearly segmented, with distinct prosome-urosome division. Body length 809 μm. Maximum width of body 205 μm across third pedigerous somite. Prosome consisting of cephalosome and 4 pedigerous somites. Urosome (
Fig. 113B
) 6-segmented, consisting of fifth pedigerous somite, genital somite and 4-segmented abdomen. Genital somite as long as wide. Four abdominal somites 50×
70m
50×61, 36×50, and 23×43 μm, respectively. Caudal ramus (
Fig. 113C
) rectangular, 2.24 times longer than wide (38×17 μm), armed with 6 setae (1 small outer, 1 dorsal, and 4 broad distal).
Rostrum absent. Antennule 7-segmented; armature on segments uncertain due to many setae missing. Antenna as in female. Labrum, mandible, maxillule, and maxilla absent. Maxilliped (
Fig. 113D
) 2-segmented; proximal segment short and unarmed; distal segment 1.5 times longer than wide, with 1 spine subdistally and 1 small lobe at mediodistal corner; terminal claw strongly curved, with bicuspid tip.
Legs 1-4 (
Fig. 113
E-H) biramous, consisting of coxa, basis, exopod, and endopod. Coxa unarmed; basis with outer seta; basis of leg 1 additionally with inner distal spine. Exopods 3-segmented in all swimming legs. Endopods 1-segmented in leg 1, but 3-segmented in legs 2-4. All setae on swimming legs geniculate proximally, and all spines fringed with broad membranes bilaterally. Endopod of leg 1 and third exopodal segment of leg 2 with bicuspid outer distal corner. Third exopodal segment of legs 3 and 4 with tricuspid outer distal corner.
Leg 5 (
Fig. 113B
) represented by free exopod tipped with 2 unequal setae. Leg 6 represented by 1 seta on distolateral apex of genital operculum.
Remarks.
Species of
ealçstçmella
seldom bear any lobes on the labrum in the female. The only known exception is
eK magellanẚca
(
Chatton & Brément, 1910
) in which the labrum bears 2 pairs of lobes, as illustrated by
Chatton & Brément (1910)
. Therefore,
eK bẚlçbata
sp. nov.
can be distinguished from all other species of the genus by the possession of a single pair of lobes on the female labrum. Other diagnostic features of the female of
e
.
bẚlçbata
sp. nov.
include: (1) the abdomen is 3-segmented, a feature shared only with
e
.
australẚensẚs
Gotto, 1970
; (2) the antennule is distinctly 2-segmented, which is a unique feature of the new species; (3) the mandible is absent, a feature shared only with
e
.
reducta
Ooishi & Illg, 1977; and (4) the maxilla is distinctly 2-segmented and armed with 2 setae on its distal segment, a feature shared only with
e
.
bçrealẚs
. The combination of these diagnostic features serves to characterize the new species.