Marine darcythompsoniids of the Turkish coasts with a description of Leptocaris emekdasi sp.nov. (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Darcythompsoniidae) from the Aegean coast of Turkey

Biga Yarımadası (Çanakkale, Türkiye) mediolitoral bölgesinin kumiçi ve fital Harpacticoid (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) faunası

“…On the other hand, Sönmez et al [26] identified miraciid specimens, collected from the mediolittoral zone of the Aegean, Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts of Turkey and reported 18 species and subspecies. Leptocaris emekdasi Köroğlu et al 2014;Schizopera karanovici Sönmez et al 2014;Diarthrodella ergeneae Sönmez et al 2015 were described in several studies which conducted on the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts [27 -29]. Alper et al [30] recorded 78 species and subspecies in 18 families from coast of Dilek Peninsula (Aydın), all the taxa reported herein are new records for the studied region, and more importantly 25 species and subspecies were also new records for the Turkish coasts.…”

Interstitial harpacticoid (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) fauna inhabiting mediolittoral zone of the Gulf of Saros (Turkey)

“…List of harpacticoids and their localities determined in these study and comparison with the previous records from Turkey. A: Noodt [8], B: Karaytuğ & Huys [25], C: Huys et al [26], D: Karaytuğ & Sak [27], E: Sak et al [28], F: Pulat et al [29], G: Alper et al [22], H: Sönmez et al [30], I: Kaymak et al [31], J: Sönmez et al [32], K: Köroğlu et al [33], L: Alper et al [34], M: Sönmez et al [35], N: Karaytuğ & Koçak [11], O: Yıldız & Karaytuğ [12], P: Sönmez et al [36], Q: Alper et al [13]. ---------- ---------- ).…”

New species of Leptocaris and a new record of Darcythompsonia inopinata (Harpacticoida: Darcythompsoniidae) from Colombia

“…The genus Leptocaris contains 29 species (L. trisetosus (Kunz, 1935) and L. echinata Fiers, 1986 with three and two subspecies, respectively), of which 12 species (L. trisetosa and L. echinata with one subspecies each; L. trisetosa trisetosa (Kunz, 1935), L. echinata echinata Fiers, 1986, L. armata Lang, 1965, L. brevicornis (Douwe, 1904, , 1965, L. kunzi Fleeger & Clark, 1980, L. pori Lang, 1965, L. stromatolicola, L. glaber Fiers, 1986, L. mangalis Por, 1983, L. minima (Jakobi, 1954, and L. vermiculata (Oliveira, 1957) Lee and Chang (2008), Song et al (2012), and Köroğlu et al (2014) presented a complete historical account of the family Darcythompsoniidae and its constituent genera, including the genus Leptocaris, as well as a brief revision of Kunz's (1978, 1994) species-groups, and Apostolov's (2007 reduction of speciesgroups from four as in Kunz (1994) to three. Fiers (1986;but see also Kunz 1994: 51) questioned the adequacy of the subdivision of the genus given the wide combination of characteristics in, for example, L. echinata echinata, and the wide variability in the general structure and armature complements of the antennal exopod, mandibular palp, presence/absence of an abexopodal seta in the antenna, fused/discrete condition of the female genital somite and third urosomite, and general structure of the maxilla, to name a few, within each species-group.…”