First Haplocyclops Kiefer (Crustacea, Copepoda) from Indian subterranean waters : the most reduced free-living cyclopoid

Indobathynella prehensilis n. gen., n. sp., an Aberrant Species of Bathynellacea (Eumalacostraca) from India

“…Incidentally, much like the present new taxon, the recently established, subterranean amphipod family from India, viz., Kotumsaridae Messouli, Holsinger, and Ranga Reddy, 2007, is characterised by a great array of curious apomorphies including several potentially juvenile character states. Here, we also note that the most derived free-living cyclopoid copepod, Haplocyclops (Kiefercyclops) fiersi Karanovic and Ranga Reddy, 2005, has been reported from the present area of sampling.…”

A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of Australian Metacyclops and Goniocyclops, with description of four new species and three new genera (Copepoda, Cyclopoida)

“…At the same time, Karanovic (2004a) described two other new Metacyclops species from the Murchison region: M. superincidentis Karanovic, 2004and M. pilanus Karanovic, 2004. Finally, Karanovic (2005 described two new species from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, respectively: M. kimberleyi Karanovic, 2005 and M. pilbaricus Karanovic, 2005. Another two new species from the Metacyclops complex were described from the Pilbara region by Karanovic (2006), both in the above-mentioned genus Fierscyclops, although in a separate subgenus Pilbaracyclops Karanovic, 2006.…”

“…Another two new species from the Metacyclops complex were described from the Pilbara region by Karanovic (2006), both in the above-mentioned genus Fierscyclops, although in a separate subgenus Pilbaracyclops Karanovic, 2006. A key to Australian species of Metacyclops was provided both by Karanovic (2005) and Tang & Knott (2009). We should mention here that the presence of three spines on the distal exopodal segments of all swimming legs was recognized as a synapomorphy of five Australian, one Indian, and one African species, and the assemblage was termed the "trispinosus"-group by Karanovic (2004a).…”

First representatives of the genus Fierscyclops Karanovic, 2004 (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) from South East Asia

“…This probably indicates low dispersal ability or strong ecological barriers preventing those subterranean copepods from invading larger areas. On the other hand, genera, such as Haplocyclops Kiefer, 1952 [South America (Brazil), continental Africa, Madagascar, Iran, and India] and Rybocyclops Dussart, 1982 (Madagascar and India) exhibit wide, Gondwana distribution (Karanovic and Ranga Reddy, 2005;Ranga Reddy and Defaye, 2008). The block containing northern South America, Africa, Madagascar, and India separated from the rest of the Gondwana supercontinent in the Jurassic/Early Cretaceous about 150-140 million years ago (MYA); Madagascar-India separated from Africa ca.…”