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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Moon SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4400403 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Moon Seong Yong SY Youn Seok-Hyun SH Venmathi Maran B A BA
ZooKeys 20150408 495
Two new species of benthopelagic copepods of the genus Stephos T. Scott, 1892, belonging to the family Stephidae G.O. Sars, 1902, are described based on specimens collected in the stagnant water flooding the burrows excavated by ocypodid crabs in two intertidal mud-flats, and from near-bottom shallow waters in Korea, respectively. They can be easily diagnosed based on the ornamentation of both the female genital double-somite and genital operculum; the morphology of the distal segment of the mal ...[more]