Parastenocaris sp.

Dole-Olivier, Marie-José, Galassi, Diana M. P., Fiers, Frank, Malard, Florian, Martin, Patrick, Martin, Dominique & Marmonier, Pierre, 2015, Biodiversity in mountain groundwater: the Mercantour National Park (France) as a European hotspot, Zoosystema 37 (4), pp. 529-550 : 540

Parastenocaris sp.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Site 9: 1 specimen. Material deposited at UNIVAQ.

REMARKS

The systematics of the family Parastenocarididae and of the type-genus Parastenocaris are in state of flux and several genera were recently described, redescribed or resurrected (e.g., Jakobi 1969, 1972; Galassi & De Laurentiis 2004b; Schminke 2010 and Karanovic & Cooper 2011). Male morphological characters are crucial for the specific identification of the species. The single female collected in the Mercantour does not allow the assignment of the specimen to any species of the genus. Most members of the family are interstitial, even if some are also found in mosses, in the saturated karst and in the epikarst.