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Loureirophonte psammophila, a new species of Laophontidae T. Scott, 1904 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Baja California, Mexico

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Loureirophonte psammophila n. sp. was collected from coarse sediments of a beach near La Paz, Baja California, Mexico. The species belongs to the ‘subterranea-group’ as defined by Fiers (1993). It differs from the other representative of the group, L. subterranea (Lang, 1965) in the presence of an outer dentiform process on 2nd segment of the antennula, the chaetotaxy of P.2–P.5 and the 1-segmented male endopodite P.4. A map with the distribution of the eleven species known so far is provided.

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  1. Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Berliner Str. 28, D-37073, Göttingen, Germany

    Wolfgang Mielke

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Mielke, W. Loureirophonte psammophila, a new species of Laophontidae T. Scott, 1904 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Baja California, Mexico. Hydrobiologia 445, 77–83 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017546905481

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