Leaf litter copepods from a cloud forest mountain top in Honduras (Copepoda: Cyclopidae, Canthocamptidae)

被引:11
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作者
Fiers, Frank [1 ,2 ]
Jocque, Merlijn [1 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Royal Belgian Inst Nat Sci, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
[2] Emil Racovita Inst Speol, Cluj Napoca, Romania
[3] Operat Wallacea, Old Bolingbroke, Lincs, England
[4] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Lab Aquat Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium
关键词
Cyclopoida; Harpacticoida; Central America; taxonomy; new species; FRESH-WATER COPEPODS; GEN-N; CRUSTACEA; HARPACTICOIDA; CYCLOPOIDA;
D O I
10.11646/zootaxa.3630.2.4
中图分类号
Q95 [动物学];
学科分类号
071002 ;
摘要
Five different species of Copepoda were extracted from a leaf litter sample collected on the top (at 2000 m a.s.l.) of a cloud forested mountain in El Cusuco National Park, Honduras. Three of them, one Cyclopidae and two Canthocamptidae are new to science, and are described herein. Olmeccyclops hondo sp. nov. is the second representative thus far known of this New World genus. Moraria catracha sp. nov. and Moraria cusuca sp. nov. are the first formally described members of the genus occurring in Central America. The concept of a "Moraria-group" is considered to be an artificial grouping and is limited here to the genera Moraria and Morariopsis only. The distributional range of this group is essentially Holarctic, with the mountainous regions in Honduras, and probably in west Nicaragua, as the southernmost limits in the New World.
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页码:270 / 290
页数:21
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