A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species

Abstract. During a survey of the zooplankton community of Bahía Amuay, Venezuelan Caribbean, specimens of an undescribed species of Caligus Müller were collected. It resembles Caligus xystercus Cressey and Caligus ocyurus Cressey, both known only from the Caribbean Sea. The new species can be distin...

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Autores principales: Suárez-Morales, Eduardo, Camisotti, Humberto, Martín, Alberto
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3385849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22768004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.201.3099
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author Suárez-Morales, Eduardo
Camisotti, Humberto
Martín, Alberto
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description Abstract. During a survey of the zooplankton community of Bahía Amuay, Venezuelan Caribbean, specimens of an undescribed species of Caligus Müller were collected. It resembles Caligus xystercus Cressey and Caligus ocyurus Cressey, both known only from the Caribbean Sea. The new species can be distinguished from these and other congeners by a combination of characters including the armature of legs 1 and 4, but mainly by its unique female genital complex. This is the first species of Caligus described from Venezuela. The species is described in full and a key to the species of the genus recorded in Venezuela is provided.
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spelling pubmed-33858492012-07-05 A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species Suárez-Morales, Eduardo Camisotti, Humberto Martín, Alberto Zookeys Article Abstract. During a survey of the zooplankton community of Bahía Amuay, Venezuelan Caribbean, specimens of an undescribed species of Caligus Müller were collected. It resembles Caligus xystercus Cressey and Caligus ocyurus Cressey, both known only from the Caribbean Sea. The new species can be distinguished from these and other congeners by a combination of characters including the armature of legs 1 and 4, but mainly by its unique female genital complex. This is the first species of Caligus described from Venezuela. The species is described in full and a key to the species of the genus recorded in Venezuela is provided. Pensoft Publishers 2012-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3385849/ /pubmed/22768004 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.201.3099 Text en Eduardo Suárez-Morales, Humberto Camisotti, Alberto Martín http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Suárez-Morales, Eduardo
Camisotti, Humberto
Martín, Alberto
A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species
title A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species
title_full A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species
title_fullStr A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species
title_full_unstemmed A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species
title_short A new species of Caligus (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the Caribbean coast of Venezuela with a key to species
title_sort new species of caligus (copepoda, siphonostomatoida) from the plankton of the caribbean coast of venezuela with a key to species
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3385849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22768004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.201.3099
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