COPEPODA FROM DEEP-SEA HYDROTHERMAL SITES AND COLD SEEPS - DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF APHOTOPONTIUS FROM THE EAST PACIFIC RISE AND GENERAL DISTRIBUTION

Twenty-four poecilostomatoid and siphonostomatoid copepods are reporte d from hydrothermal sites in the eastern Pacific and on the Mid-Atlant ic Ridge. These include two siphonostomatoids from the East Pacific Ri se: Aphotopontius rapunculus, new species, and Stygiopontius mirus, a, species previously known only from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Ecological remarks and a synoptic table of 67 species of copepods known at this time from hydrothermal sites and cold seeps are presented.