Untold diversity: the astonishing species richness of the Notodelphyidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), a family of symbiotic copepods associated with ascidians (Tunicata)
Author
Kim, Il-Hoi
0000-0002-7332-0043
Korea Institute of Coastal Ecology, Inc., 802 - ho, 302 - dong, 397 Seokcheon-ro, Ojeong-gu, Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do 14449, Republic of Korea ® ihkim @ gwnu. ac. kr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7332 - 0043
ihkim@gwnu.ac.kr
Author
Boxshall, Geoff A.
0000-0002-7332-0043
Korea Institute of Coastal Ecology, Inc., 802 - ho, 302 - dong, 397 Seokcheon-ro, Ojeong-gu, Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do 14449, Republic of Korea ® ihkim @ gwnu. ac. kr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7332 - 0043
ihkim@gwnu.ac.kr
text
Megataxa
2020
2020-12-24
4
1
1
6
http://zoobank.org/3fdd970e-62f1-4f67-8cce-10870bdb3c01
journal article
54097
10.11646/megataxa.4.1.1
7c9bc39d-9910-46f1-9558-c0647b9cbbdb
2703-3090
4591138
Notopterophorus papilio
Hesse, 1864
(
Fig. 92D, E
)
Material examined
.
4 ♀♀
(MNHN-IU-2018-1817) from
Ascidia mentula
Müller, 1776
, Glenan;
3 ♀♀
, 5 ♂♂ (MNHN-IU-2018-1818) and 1 dissected
♀
from
Ascidia aximensis
Miller, 1953
,
Sierra Leone
,
03 October 1990
;
12 ♀♀
(MNHN-IU-2009-2466) from
A
.
mentula
, Port Antifer, Le Havre,
France
, Breton coll.,
November 2008
.
Remarks
. In some of the females examined here the dorsal wing-like extension of the first pedigerous somite lacks filiform processes (
Fig. 92D
), and the wings of the second pedigerous somite have only posterior filiform processes with the anterior processes either rudimentary (
Fig. 92D
) or lacking (
Fig. 92E
).