Geoffrey Boxshall & Thomas M. Iliffe. 1986. New cave-dwelling misophrioids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Bermuda. Sarsia
71(1):55-64
Two new misophrioid copepods are described from plankton taken from inland marine caves on Bermuda. A new genus and species,
Speleophria bivexilla, is established on the basis of adult females from Roadside Cave and is distinguished from other misophrioids by the
possession of a fused genital complex and a 2-segmented first leg endopod. The other new species, from Jane's Cave, is based on a single copepodid
III stage and differs from other misophrioids in the segmentation of its mouthparts. It is not named because it cannot be placed in a genus until
the adults are discovered.
Geoffrey A. Boxshall, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD,
England. - Thomas M. Iliffe, Department of Marine
Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, P.O. Box 1675,
Galveston, Texas 77553, USA.
E-mail: G.Boxshall@nhm.ac.uk -
iliffet@tamug.ed
Keywords: Copepoda; Speleophria; new genus; caves; anchialine; Bermuda.
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