Frank Fiers & Thomas M. Iliffe. 2000. Nitocrellopsis texana n. sp. from central TX (U. S. A.) and N. ahaggarensis n. sp. from
the central Algerian Sahara (Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Hydrobiologia, 418(1): 81-97.
Nitocrellopsis texana n. sp. found in samples collected by SCUBA divers in Honey Creek Cave (Texas, U.S.A.) is described. This species
is the first representative of this stygobitic taxon from a Northern American locality. The original description of N. ioneli (Dumont AMP; Decraemer, 1975)
is amended and the closely related N. ahaggarensis n. sp. is described from a well near Tamanghasset in the Ahaggar mountains in Algeria. The monophyly of
Nitocrellopsis is discussed and its present day distribution is analyzed.
Frank Fiers, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium. - Thomas M. Iliffe, Department of Marine
Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, P.O. Box 1675, Galveston, Texas 77553, USA.
E-mail:
iliffet@tamug.edu
Keywords: Copepoda; Harpacticoida; Nitocrellopsis; caves; anchialine; Texas; Algeria.
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