Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 121 1967 Number 3573 



NEW CYCLOPOID COPEPODS 



ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALCYONARIAN CORAL 



TUBIPORA MUSICA (LINNAEUS) 



IN MADAGASCAR 



By Arthur G. Humes and Ju-Shey Ho ^ 



At Nosy Be, in the northwestern part of Madagascar, several species 

 of copepods (Humes and Frost, 1964) are known to be associated 

 with members of the alcyonarian order Alcyonacea, but until now 

 none have been reported living with members of the order Stolonifera. 



While participating in the work of the U.S. Program in Biology of 

 the International Indian Ocean Expedition at Nosy Be in 1963-64, 

 the first author collected 4 species of cyclopoid copepods from wash- 

 ings of Tubipora musica (Linnaeus), the common organ-pipe coral. 

 These species are described below. 



All figures have been drawn with the aid of a camera lucida. 



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

 from the National Science Foundation. We wish to thank Dr. 

 Michel Pichon for verification of the identity of the coral and to 

 acknowledge the many courtesies received from the staff of the Centre 

 d'Oceanographie et des Peches at Nosy Be. 



1 Both authors: Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 



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