New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
New species of benthopelagic copepod Xantharus (Calanoida: Scolecitrichidae)
from the upper slope, eastern central New Zealand
Janet M. Bradford-Grieve
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research Limited
Private Bag 14901
Wellington, New Zealand
email: j.grieve@niwa.co.nz
Abstract Xantharus Andronov, 1981 is reported,
for the first time from New Zealand, from the upper slope (306 m) off the
southeastern coast of North Island (41°04.10°S, 176°22.05°E).
Xantharus cryeri n. sp. females differ from the three known species by a
combination of characters: antennules that extend to the distal border of
pedigerous somite 2; ancestral segment XVIII of the antennule with 1 seta;
mandible basis with 3 setae; maxilla endite 1 with 5 setae; leg 1 basis with
inner distal border lined with small spinules; and leg 5 is squat, with all
segments as long as wide and the 2 terminal spine-like extensions of the
terminal segment approximately as long as the articulated, inner, subterminal
spine.
Keywords Copepoda; Calanoida; benthopelagic; Scolecitrichidae;
new species; Xantharus cryeri n. sp.; New Zealand
M04159; Online publication date 17 June 2005 Received 23 December 2004;
accepted 28 February 2005
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2005, Vol. 39:
941-949
0028-8330/05/3904-0941 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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