Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, B.C. 



Volume 117 1965 Number 3513 



PLANKTONIC COPEPODS 



FROM BAHIA FOSFORESCENTE, 



PUERTO RICO, AND ADJACENT WATERS 



By Juan G. Gonzalez and Thomas E. Bowman* 



Beginning in the fall of 1957, an investigation of the plankton along 

 the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico, from Bahia Montalva on the 

 east to Posa de Don Eulalio on the west, was carried out by Dr. Robert 

 E. Coker and Juan G. Gonzdlez. A map of the area showing the 

 stations at which plankton samples were collected routinely for 2 years 

 is given in figure 1. A description of the region, together with an 

 account of the methods of collection and an analysis of the climatic 

 and hydrographic conditions, is given by Coker and Gonzdlez (1960) 

 in their ecological study of the copepod populations. The present 

 paper is a taxonomic treatment of the planktonic copepods and is 

 hmited to the species that occur regularly in the bays and the inner 



' Gonzalez: Institute of Marine Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagiiez; 

 Bowman: Associate Curator, Division of Crustacea, Smithsonian Institution. 



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