A new anchialine Stephos Scott from the Yucatan Peninsula with notes on the biogeography and diversity of the genus (Copepoda, Calanoida, Stephidae).

Surveys of the anchialine crustacean fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula (YP), Mexico, have revealed the occurrence of calanoid copepods. The genus Stephos Scott, 1892, belonging to the family Stephidae is among the most frequent and widely distributed groups in anchialine caves but has not been hitherto...

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Authors: SUAREZ MORALES, EDUARDO; 6662, GUTIERREZ AGUIRRE, MARTHA ANGELICA; 25926, CERVANTES MARTINEZ, ADRIAN; 38351, Iliffe, Thomas; 0000-0002-4342-5960, SUAREZ MORALES, EDUARDO, GUTIERREZ AGUIRRE, MARTHA ANGELICA, CERVANTES MARTINEZ, ADRIAN, Iliffe, Thomas
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:México
Institution:Universidad de Quintana Roo
Repository:Repositorio Institucional SISBIUQROO
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:risisbi.uqroo.mx:20.500.12249/1397
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12249/1397
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Calanoid copepods
Stygobionts
Cave-dwelling fauna
Biogeography
Taxonomy
BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA
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Summary:Surveys of the anchialine crustacean fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula (YP), Mexico, have revealed the occurrence of calanoid copepods. The genus Stephos Scott, 1892, belonging to the family Stephidae is among the most frequent and widely distributed groups in anchialine caves but has not been hitherto recorded from the YP. Recent collections from an anchialine cave in an island off the northern coast of the YP yielded many specimens of a new species of Stephos

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