Monstrilla Dana, 1849

Suárez-Morales, Eduardo, 2024, Two new species of Monstrilla (Copepoda: Monstrilloida: Monstrillidae) from a protected reef system of the Mexican Caribbean, European Journal of Taxonomy 917, pp. 152-169 : 153

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.917.2395

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3C2B9600-0276-4B8E-A3FD-36653D7D79B6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10498256

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE094B-FFBA-F201-E267-F927FE40F875

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Monstrilla Dana, 1849
status

 

Genus Monstrilla Dana, 1849 View in CoL

The two species studied here can be assigned to the genus Monstrilla by the presence of 1) a single urosomite between the genital double-somite and the anal somite, 2) well-developed fifth legs, with two ramal lobes usually carrying setae, and 3) six setae on each caudal ramus. This combination of characters is unique among the accepted genera of monstrilloids ( Isaac 1975; Suárez-Morales & McKinnon 2014; Jeon et al. 2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

SubPhylum

Crustacea

SuperClass

Multicrustacea

Class

Copepoda

SubClass

Copepoda

Order

Monstrilloida

Family

Monstrillidae

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF