A new species of parastenhelia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenheliidae) from Korea.
A new species belonging to the genus Parastenhelia of family Parastenheliidae is described on the basis of the specimens of both sexes collected from the zosteran bed at Seungbong Island and from the shallow sandy bottoms of Jeju Island in Korea. It is distinguished from the congeners by its character combination of inserted location and the length proportion of the inner seta on the first endopodal segment of leg 1, shape of female leg 5, the modified male legs 2-3 endopods, and the number of setae on male leg 5 exopod. An emended table of morphological characters for the genus is provided.
Song
Sung Joon
SJ
School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.
Kim
Won
W
Chang
Cheon Young
CY
D000818:Animals; D033342:Copepoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013045:Species Specificity