Rybocyclops Dussart, 1982

Reddy, Yenumula Ranga & Defaye, Danielle, 2008, Discovery of the genus Rybocyclops Dussart, 1982 (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in subterranean groundwaters of southeastern India, with the description of a new species and its biogeographic significance, Zootaxa 1810, pp. 40-50 : 41

Genus Rybocyclops Dussart, 1982

Amended diagnosis. Cyclopidae , Cyclopinae of small size, less than 500 µm in length. Body robust, with a pseudosomite present between prosome and genital double-somite, the latter broader than long. Anal operculum produced; caudal rami short. Antennule 11-segmented in female, 14 to 16-segmented in male. Setal formula of last exopodal segment of legs 1–4 is either 5.4.4.3 or 5.5.5.4; leg 4 with two-segmented rami in male and one- or two-segmented endopod in female. Spine at the inner corner of basipodite of P1 absent, inner coxopodal seta absent at least on P1 and P4; sexual dimorphism in the armature of second endopodal segment of P3 or P4. Intercoxal plates of P1-P4 with rounded small prominences. P5 reduced to three setae, one outer, the two inner ones inserted close to each other. P6 reduced to two very small elements.

Type species: Rybocyclops pauliani ( Lindberg, 1954) .

Other species: Rybocyclops dussarti sp. nov.