Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 11. 1997 (Budapest, 1997)

Hołyńska, M.: A new representative of Mesocyclops thermocyclopoides-circle (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from India

segment; inner exopod seta of the leg 5 often shorter, in some cases as long as, or longer, than the baseoendopod seta of the leg 5; dorsal furcal seta often conspicuously longer (>1.2x) than the posterolateral one. Distribution: Japan - Spinules at implantation of the anterolateral furcal seta always absent, those next to insertion of the posterolateral furcal seta usually absent M. woutersi Van de Velde, 1987 The "leuckarti-type" spinule pattern on the caudal surface of antennary basis supplemented with a field of spinules near the implantation of inner setae, and sometimes a group of spinules near distal rim of the segment; inner exopod seta of the leg 5 longer than the leg 5 baseoendopod seta; dorsal furcal seta shorter or slightly, but never conspicuously longer (max. ca.l.lx) than the posterolateral one. Distribution: New Guinea, Indochina, China and Japan. Acknowledgements I am very grateful to László Forró (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary), who kindly lent the material from the Daday Collection. Also many thanks to Danielle Defaye (National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France), Wen-Been Chang (National Museum of Marine Biology, Kaohshiung, Taiwan) and Sunny George (Christ College, Irinjalakuda, India), who sent specimens of M. granulatus, M. isabellae, M. thermocyclopoides

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