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Hemicyclops columnaris sp.n. (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida, Clausidiidae) Associated with a Coral in Panama (Pacific Side)
Author(s) -
HUMES ARTHUR G.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1984.tb00020.x
Subject(s) - biology , panama , coral , porites , lobata , crustacean , genus , taxonomy (biology) , tropical eastern pacific , zoology , cnidaria , invertebrate , pacific ocean , ecology , oceanography , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , pueraria , geology
Hemicyclops columnaris sp.n. is described from the scleractinian coral Porites lobata Dana on the Pacific coast of Panama. The new species may be distinguished from its 23 congeners by a combination of the body size and the shape of the genital segment in the female. Although certain members of the genus Hemicyclops are associated with crustaceans, polychaetes and other marine invertebrates, this is the first record of a species of this genus from a hard coral.