Four new species of Gomphocythere (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa

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作者
Park, LE
Martens, K
机构
[1] Inst Royal Sci Nat Belgique, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
[2] Univ Akron, Dept Geol, Akron, OH 44325 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Crustacea; Ostracoda; Gomphocythere; taxonomy; morphology; Africa; Lake Tanganyika; ancient lakes; benthos;
D O I
10.1023/A:1017528407191
中图分类号
Q17 [水生生物学];
学科分类号
071004 ;
摘要
Four new species of the ostracod genus Gomphocythere are described from Lake Tanganyika (East Africa): Gomphocythere downingi n. sp. G. coheni n. sp., G. wilsoni n. sp., and G. woutersi n. sp. All species are endemic to the lake and are found within a variety of substrates and depths. The addition of these four new species brings the total number of endemic Gomphocythere species in Lake Tanganyika to nine. Other Gomphocythere species are known from water bodies throughout East and South Africa and in the Levant. Brooding is an important, but not a unique, preadaptation for the persistence and taxic prolific speciation of this lineage in Lake Tanganyika.
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页数:19
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