Two new subterranean Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Western Australia

Karanovic, Tomislav

doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.22(4).2005.353-374

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“…Specimens of K. iulianae sp. nov. were mounted between two coverslips, to allow observation from two sides, and fragments of human hair were inserted near the non-dissected specimens to avoid deformation (Karanovic 2005). Once the medium was dry, the coverslips were fixed to a microscope slide with pieces of adhesive tape.…”

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“…nov. is well characterized by the ventral ornamentation of the genital double-somite and urosomites in the female: this species has two arched spinular rows on the ventral surface of the genital double somite, at half the length of the segment, and no spinules on the other urosomites. Spinular rows are missing in K. giselae, K. eberhardi (Karanovic 2005) K. solitaria and K. linesae Karanovic and Cooper (2011). In K. godavari there is a "transverse row of about 8 dorsal spinules on either side at about the middle of distal half" (Reddy and Schminke 2009, p. 318) of the genital double-somite, and the ventral ornamentation is represented by a long row extending to almost the entire ventral surface, and a transverse row of five spinules midventrally on the third urosomite.…”

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“…Schminke (2008) identified 11 morphological characters which, according to this author, are shared by all the Kinnecaris known at that time. However, Schminke (2008) noticed that only three species, namely K. quollensis (Cottarelli & Bruno 1995), K. eberhardi (Karanovic 2005) and K. giselae Schminke (2008), shared all of these 11 characters. The remaining 14 species show only some of the characters, due to the incomplete or incorrect original descriptions, or to the lack of description for the male, as occurs for K. fluviatilis (Wells, 1964) and K. solitaria (Karanovic 2004).…”

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First record ofKinnecaris(Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae) from Turkey and Thailand; description of three new species and emended definition of the genus

Bruno

Cottarelli

2015

Italian Journal of Zoology

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Three new species of hyporheic Parastenocarididae from Turkey and Thailand are described in this paper, based on their morphological features. Kinnecaris xanthi sp. nov. and Kinnecaris draconis sp. nov. were collected in Anatolic Turkey, respectively from one and two rivers; Kinnecaris iulianae sp. nov. was collected from several streams on Pha-Ngan Island (Thailand). The two new species from Turkey both lack the typical pitted integument and their P5 fused with the intercoxal sclerite in both sexes; they share a similar shape of the caudal rami in both sexes and of P4 in male. They differ in the ornamentation of the genital double-somite and the armature of A1 in females; in the ornamentation of the anal operculum; in the shape of P2 endopod of both sexes, and P3 endopod of females; in the ornamentation of the first exopodal segment of P3 in males, and in the armature of P4 endopod in females. Kinnecaris iulianae sp. nov. shares with the other species from the Oriental and Australian Region the presence of a pitted cuticle, the size and shape of caudal rami and the shape and ornamentation of P3 in the males, and is characterized by the ventral ornamentation of the genital double-somite and urosomites of the females, and by the lack of ornamentation at the insertion of the P4 endopod of both sexes. The descriptions of these three new Kinnecaris widen the distribution of the genus which, so far, was considered Gondwanian. In this paper, we also re-examine the diagnostic characters of the genus and their presence and/or variability in the known species of Kinnecaris, discuss the taxonomic position of Kinnecaris lyncaea and emend the genus diagnosis.

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First record ofKinnecaris(Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae) from Turkey and Thailand; description of three new species and emended definition of the genus

Bruno

Cottarelli

2015

Italian Journal of Zoology

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“…Marmonier (2002, 2003), Karanovic (2003aKaranovic ( , 2003bKaranovic ( , 2004Karanovic ( , 2005aKaranovic ( , 2005bKaranovic ( , 2007) Copepoda Karanovic, T. Pesce and De Laurentiis (1996), Pesce et al (1996aPesce et al ( , 1996b, Karanovic et al (2001), Karanovic and Pesce (2002), Karanovic (2003Karanovic ( , 2004aKaranovic ( , 2004bKaranovic ( , 2005Karanovic ( , 2006 (1998) points (bores or caves). In this case, extrapolation of richness estimates was based on accumulation curves as outlined by Eberhard et al (2009).…”

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VIEWPOINT. Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse?

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Abstract. Australia was historically considered a poor prospect for subterranean fauna but, in reality, the continent holds a great variety of subterranean habitats, with associated faunas, found both in karst and non-karst environments. This paper critically examines the diversity of subterranean fauna in several key regions for the mostly arid western half of Australia. We aimed to document levels of species richness for major taxon groups and examine the degree of uniqueness of the fauna. We also wanted to compare the composition of these ecosystems, and their origins, with other regions of subterranean diversity world-wide. Using information on the number of 'described' and 'known' invertebrate species (recognised based on morphological and/or molecular data), we predict that the total subterranean fauna for the western half of the continent is 4140 species, of which~10% is described and 9% is 'known' but not yet described. The stygofauna, water beetles, ostracods and copepods have the largest number of described species, while arachnids dominate the described troglofauna. Conversely, copepods, water beetles and isopods are the poorest known groups with less than 20% described species, while hexapods (comprising mostly Collembola, Coleoptera, Blattodea and Hemiptera) are the least known of the troglofauna. Compared with other regions of the world, we consider the Australian subterranean fauna to be unique in its diversity compared with the northern hemisphere for three key reasons: the range and diversity of subterranean habitats is both extensive and novel; direct faunal links to ancient Pangaea and Gondwana are evident, emphasising their early biogeographic history; and Miocene aridification, rather than Pleistocene post-ice age driven diversification events

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“…Other speciose groups include bathynellaceans (Cho et al, 2006a(Cho et al, , 2006b), amphipods (Finston et al, 2007), and isopods (Wilson, 2008), but some others are very poorly studied, although regularly collected in great numbers (water mites and oligochaetes for example). Copepods proved to be one of the most abundant and diverse subterranean groups here, containing both some ancient lineages and recent invaders, short range endemics and relatively widely distributed species (Nicholls, 1945a(Nicholls, , 1945bPesce and De Laurentiis, 1996;Pesce et al, 1996aPesce et al, , 1996bDe Laurentiis et al, 1999, 2001Karanovic et al, 2001;Karanovic and Pesce, 2002;Lee and Huys, 2002;Karanovic, 2003Karanovic, , 2004aKaranovic, , 2004bKaranovic, , 2005Karanovic, , 2006Karanovic, , 2008Tang et al, 2008;Karanovic and Eberhard, 2009;Karanovic and Hancock, 2009;Karanovic and Tang, 2009;Tang and Knott, 2009). In Western Australia it is necessary for any new development that potentially impacts on groundwater to be preceded by biological surveys of groundwater biodiversity.…”

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First record of the harpacticoid genusNitocrellopsis(Copepoda, Ameiridae) in Australia, with descriptions of three new species

Karanovic

2010

Ann. Limnol. - Int. J. Lim.

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-Three new freshwater ameirid species were discovered in the Western Australian subterranean habitats and described in this paper. They all proved to belong to the genus Nitocrellopsis Galassi, De Laurentiis & Dole-Olivier, 1999, representing the first record of this genus in Australia. Nitocrellopsis operculata sp. nov. was collected in 2003 in the Pilbara region, during the Pilbara Regional Survey, led by the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC). It can be distinguished from all other congeners by the reduced armature of the antennal exopod, which is an autapomorphic feature. Also, no other species of Nitocrellopsis has cuticular windows on prosomal or urosomal somites, or six elements on the third exopodal segment of the second leg. Nitocrellopsis halsei sp. nov. and N. pinderi sp. nov. are sister-species, collected in 2007 in the neighbouring Yilgarn region, by the private environmental consulting company Bennelongia Pty Ltd. Numerous morphological similarities include somite ornamentation, armature patterns of the swimming legs and the fifth leg, as well as the shape and armature of the antennula, antenna and almost all mouth appendages, while the main differences between the two are observed in the body size and habitus appearance, caudal rami shape and size, presence/absence of large lateral pores on the fourth pedigerous somite, number of spinules on the anal operculum, number of setae on the madibular endopod, and shape of the exopod of the fifth leg. Although they differ from any other congener by a combination of characters, no significant autapomorphic features were observed. In order to find a more natural allocation of these three species, a cladistic analysis is performed on all current members of Nitocrellopsis and three outgroup taxa, based on 45 morphological characters. The resulting cladogram shows that the ingroup is well defined by at least four synapomorphies, but the Australian species from the two regions are only remotely related to each other, showing the importance of looking at small-scale patterns when inferring Gondwanan biogeography. Three sister-species pairs are recognized in the genus and a key to all 12 members is provided.

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Two new subterranean Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Western Australia

Abstract: -Two new species of the genus Parastenocaris

Cited by 24 publications

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First record ofKinnecaris(Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae) from Turkey and Thailand; description of three new species and emended definition of the genus

First record ofKinnecaris(Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae) from Turkey and Thailand; description of three new species and emended definition of the genus

VIEWPOINT. Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse?

First record of the harpacticoid genusNitocrellopsis(Copepoda, Ameiridae) in Australia, with descriptions of three new species

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