Mihai
Bacescu and Thomas M. Iliffe (1986). Bermudamysis g.n., Platyops
g.n. and other mysids from Bermudian caves. Stygologia 2:93-104.
One of the authors (T. Iliffe)
collected mysids from 9 caves, within the
framework of a faunistic survey of Bermudian caves. A brief characterization
of the caves and the collecting technique
is presented.
Two new genera, each with a new species
— i.e. Bermudamysis speluncola n.g., n.sp.
and Platyops sterreri n.g., n.sp. — are described. The first species was
collected in dozens of specimens from numerous caves; the second shows dorsoventrally flattened eyes, a convergency with the genus
Heteromysoides, although the new
genus seems to belong to the Mysini
tribe.
Morphological and zoogeographical remarks are made on
another mysid common in those caves, Heteromysis bennudensis Sars, 1885, as well as on a fourth
species, H. guitarti Bacescu, 1978.
Mihai Bacescu, deceased
- 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: anchialine, mysids, caves, Bermuda, Bermudamysis, Platyops,
Heteromysis.
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