Louis S. Kornicker & Thomas M. Iliffe. 1989. Dantya ferox, a new
species of myodocopid ostracode from Niue, Central South Pacific (Crustacea: Ostracoda:
Sarsiellidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102:901-911.
Dantya ferox, a new species of myodocopid ostracode
in the subfamily Dantyinae from a marine cave in the island of Niue, central
South Pacific, is described and illustrated. The genus had not been reported
previously from the Pacific. A key is presented to the species of Dantya.
Louis S.
Kornicker, Department of Systematic Biology, Division of Invertebrate
Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, 20560, USA. - 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: Ostracoda; Myodocopa; Dantyinae; Dantya; caves; Niue.
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