Two new species of ochridacyclops (Kiefer, 1937) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from Kenya and Nepal.
Two species of cyclopoid copepods, Ochridacyclops kenyaensis sp. nov. and O. nepalensis sp. nov. are described as the first records of this genus from Kenya and Nepal, respectively. Ochridacyclops kenyaensis can easily be distinguished from its congeners by having a rounded and blunt distal end of the outer terminal seta (IV) on the caudal rami, and by the inner terminal spine being about equal in length to the outer terminal spine on the endopod of leg 4. Ochridacyclops nepalensis can easily be distinguished from other members of the genus by having two spines on exopodal segment 3 of leg 1, and by the proportions of the caudal rami, which are 3.4 times longer than wide.
Tomikawa
Ko
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Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. tomikawa@sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Ito
Tomiko
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Minakawa
Noboru
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Mawatari
Shunsuke F
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D000717:Anatomy, Comparative; D000818:Animals; D001837:Body Weights and Measures; D033342:Copepoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D003710:Demography; D004777:Environment; D007630:Kenya; D009390:Nepal; D013045:Species Specificity