Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 122 1967 Number 3586 



NEW CYCLOPOID COPEPODS 



ASSOCIATED WITH THE CORAL 



PSAMMOCORA CONTIGUA (ESPER) IN MADAGASCAR 



By Arthur G. Humes and Ju-Shey Ho ' 



Several species of copepods are known to live in association with 

 madi'eporarian corals in the region of Nosy Be, in northwestern Mada- 

 gascar (Humes, 1962a, 1962b; Humes and Frost, 1964), Only one of 

 these, Kombia angulata Humes, 1962, has been recovered from the 

 genus Psammocora (family Thamnasteriidae). that is to sa}'-, from 

 Psammocora species. 



An examination of Psammocora contigua (Esper) from Ambariobe, 

 a small island situated nearly between Nosy Be and Nosy Komba, 

 has revealed the fom* new associated copepods described in this paper. 



All collections were made by the senior author while particij^ating 

 in the activities of the U.S. Program in Biology of the International 

 Indian Ocean Expedition at Nosy Be in 1963-64. 



The study of the material has been aided by a grant (GB-1809) 

 from the National Science Foundation. 



All figm'es have been drawn with the aid of a camera lucida. The 

 letter after the explanation of each figure refers to the scale at which 

 it was drawn. Abbreviations used hi figures: Ai = first antenna, 

 A2 = second antenna, L=labrum, MD = mandible, P=paragnath, 



1 Both authors: Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, INIassachu- 

 setts. 



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