Suárez-Morales, E., A. Goruppi, A. De Olazabal & V. Tirelli. (2017). Monstrilloids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Mediterranean Sea (Northern Adriatic Sea), with a description of six new species. Journal of Natural History. 51(31-32): 1795-1834.
Suárez-Morales, E., A. Goruppi, A. De Olazabal & V. Tirelli
2017
Monstrilloids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Mediterranean Sea (Northern Adriatic Sea), with a description of six new species
Journal of Natural History
51(31-32): 1795-1834
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Monstrilloid copepods collected during zooplankton surveys carried
out over several years (2009–2016) in the Gulf of Trieste, northern
Adriatic Sea, were examined. A total of seven species were found, of
which six are undescribed, five of Cymbasoma and one of Monstrilla.
These new species are described, illustrated and compared herein
with its known congeners. Two of them are related to the C. rigidum
species complex. One of these species is described based on both
the male and the female; sexes were linked by identical details of
the cephalic structure and the antennulary armature. Two previous
reports of females attributed to C. tumorifrons from the
Mediterranean relate to specimens that in fact belong to a new
species, C. mediterranea. The most abundant species was M. grandis,
which had a remarkable aggregation around the Trieste harbour in
2015. Male and female specimens of this assumedly widespread
species were examined and the observed intra-specific morphological
variability is reported and compared with previous illustrated
reports; this nominal species probably this nominal species, probably
represents a species complex. The addition of the new species
here described brings the number of nominal species in the
Mediterranean-Black Sea region to 26.
