PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Issued 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 106 Washinglon: 1956 No. 3370 



A NEW SPECIES OF CANDACIA (COPEPODA: CALANOIDA) 

 FROM THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 



T>v Abraham Fleminger and Thomas E. Bowman 



The new species of Candacia described below was discovered inde- 

 pendently by the authors while engaged in studies of plankton col- 

 lections made by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The 

 plankton tows were made off the southern Atlantic coast of the 

 United States by tlie Theodore N. Gill and in the Gulf of Mexico by 

 the Alaska as part of general oceanograpliic surveys of the two regions. 



In addition to the new species described below, seven known species 

 of Candacia have been found in the collections. C. biplnnata Gies- 

 brecht, bispinosa Clans, curta Dana, longimana Claus, pachydactijla 

 Dana, and simplex Giesbrecht occurred in both regions surveyed, 

 whereas a.rmala Boeck has been found only in collections made at 

 some of the most northern stations occupied by the Gill, off Beaufort, 

 N. C. These stations appear to represent approximately the southern 

 boundary of the distribution of this species along the Atlantic coast 

 of the United States. As pointed out by Thompson and Scott (1903, 

 p. 250), Brady's (1884, p. 68) records from Challenger stations are 

 probably erroneous. The only other published records from Indo- 

 Pacific or tropical western Atlantic locaUties are contained in C. B. 

 Wilson's Carnegie (1942) and Albatross (1950) reports. Examination 

 of Carnegie and Albatross specimens in the U. S. National Museum 



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