2 NEW SPECIES OF COPEPODA HARPACTICOIDA FROM EAST SERBIA (BALKAN PENINSULA) - PARASTENOCARIS-SERBICA SP. N. AND BRYOCAMPTUS (R.) BORUS SP. N

Citation
T. Karanovic et M. Bobic, 2 NEW SPECIES OF COPEPODA HARPACTICOIDA FROM EAST SERBIA (BALKAN PENINSULA) - PARASTENOCARIS-SERBICA SP. N. AND BRYOCAMPTUS (R.) BORUS SP. N, Crustaceana, 71, 1998, pp. 171-184
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology",Zoology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0011216X
Volume
71
Year of publication
1998
Part
2
Pages
171 - 184
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-216X(1998)71:<171:2NSOCH>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
In the present paper two new species of harpacticoid copepods are desc ribed from east Serbia, Bor region, Vodena cave. Both species were col lected in small puddles at the end of the cave. They are real troglobi onts. Parastenocaris serbica sp. n. (Parastenocarididae) belongs to th e ''minuta''-group of the genus. It has no close relatives among the r ecent species and, together with P. nolli Kiefer, 1938 (which is remov ed from the ''proserpina''-group), it enlarges the scope of the ''minu ta''-group. Bryocamptus (Rheocamptus) bents sp. n. (Canthocamptidae) b elongs to the ''pygmaeus-typhlops''-group of its genus. It is remarkab ly similar to B. (R.) typhlops (Mrazek, 1893), but there are clear dif ferential characteristics. Also, it is similar to B. tauricus Borutzky , 1930 and B. bispinosus Borutzky, 1940 from Crimea, as well as to B. innominatus Borutzky, 1940 from the Caucasus.