New records of poecilostomatoid copepods (Crustacea) from a coastal system in the Colombian Caribbean with notes on morphology

By

Fuentes-Reinés, Juan M.
Suarez-Morales, Eduardo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017-9-22

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

13

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

513--523

Subjects

Crustaceans , new records , Rodadero Bay , taxonomy , Zooplankton

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.513

 

Abstract

Seven species of free-living poecilostomatoid copepods are recorded from a coastal system in northern Colombia; one of these records, Oncaea scottodicarloi Heron and Bradford-Grieve, is new for Colombia. The poecilostome copepod fauna from the surveyed area is represented mostly by widespread species commonly found in neritic and oceanic waters of tropical latitudes, but local morphologic data are scarce in the regional literature. Brief diagnostic descriptions of the species recorded for the Colombian copepod fauna are provided together with illustrations of taxonomically important appendages, morphologic remarks, notes on the variability of some species, and their distribution.