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SUBMITTER: Previattelli D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5523360 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Previattelli Daniel D Perbiche-Neves Gilmar G da Rocha Carlos E F CEF
ZooKeys 20170606 678
A new Diaptomidae species is presented from the Neotropical region. It was found in two Amazonian lakes, Ressaca and Arapujá, both in Pará State, Brazil. The lakes are 400 km apart and threatened by the building of reservoirs for hydropower generation and pollution by human settlements. The new species resembles <i>N. paraensis</i> Dussart & Robertson, 1984, but it can be distinguished from this species and other congeners in having a special process on the fifth leg basis of the male, by the pl ...[more]