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Discovery of Novocriniidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from cold-water corals in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic), with description of a new species of Atergopedia Martínez Arbizu & Moura, 1998
Gheerardyn, H.; Martínez Arbizu, P.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Discovery of Novocriniidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from cold-water corals in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic), with description of a new species of Atergopedia Martínez Arbizu & Moura, 1998. Org. Divers. Evol. 9(3): 248.e1-248.e12. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2009.04.001
In: Organisms Diversity & Evolution. Elsevier: Heidelberg. ISSN 1439-6092; e-ISSN 1618-1077, more
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Keywords
    Cold water
    Corals
    Taxa > Species > New taxa > New species
    Archaeotisbe confluenta Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008 [WoRMS]; Atergopedia longicaudata Gheerardyn, Martínez Arbizu & Vanreusel, 2009 [WoRMS]; Atergopedia vetusta Martínez Arbizu & Moura, 1998 [WoRMS]
    ANE, Porcupine Seabight [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Archaeotisbe confluenta; Atergopedia longicaudata sp n.; Atergopediavetusta; Cold-water corals; Porcupine Seabight

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  • Gheerardyn, H., more
  • Martínez Arbizu, P.
  • Vanreusel, A., more

Abstract
    The female of Atergopedia longicaudata sp. n. is described from dead cold-water coral fragments collected from the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic). The new species is the fourth representative of the family Novocriniidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida); it can be distinguished from its congeners by the elongate caudal rami and the ancestral armature on enp-3 of P1. Rediscovery of Atergopedia vetusta Martínez Arbizu & Moura, 1998, originally described from the Arctic Barents Sea, results in corrections to the species description. Archaeotisbe confluenta Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008 is transferred to the genus Atergopedia Martínez Arbizu & Moura, 1998, and Archaeotisbe Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008 is newly treated as a junior synonym of Atergopedia. Diagnoses (as ground patterns) for the two novocriniid genera (Atergopedia and Novocrinia Huys & Iliffe, 1998) are provided, and autapomorphies are indicated.

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