Neoleptastacus huysi ( Karanovic, 2000 ), 2008

Sak, Serdar, Karaytuğ, Süphan & Huys, Rony, 2024, Review of Neoleptastacus Nicholls, 1945 (Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae), including an updated key to species and proposal of Phreatipontia gen. nov., Zootaxa 5525 (1), pp. 1-66 : 30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5525.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14042388

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/627EC678-F77B-FFA2-FF4E-FD8B7FAFFA8E

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scientific name

Neoleptastacus huysi ( Karanovic, 2000 )
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Neoleptastacus huysi ( Karanovic, 2000) View in CoL

Arenopontia (Neoleptastacus) huysi Karanovic, 2000 View in CoL

Neoleptastacus huysi ( Karanovic, 2000) Sak et al. (2008: 412) View in CoL

Original description. Karanovic (2000): 34–36; Figs 1–13 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 View FIGURE 6 View FIGURE 7 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 View FIGURE 13 (♀ only).

Type locality. Montenegro, Ulcinj Municipality, Island of Ada Bojana   GoogleMaps , near Ulcinj   GoogleMaps ; 41°51’30” N, 19°21’10” E; sandy beach.

Body length. 320 μm (♀).

Remarks. The species has not been recorded again since its original description which was based on a single ovigerous female. The combined presence of an inner seta on P2 enp-2 and two distal elements on P3 enp-2 places N. huysi in the acanthus -subgroup, together with N. acanthus and N. chaufriassei . Karanovic (2000) considered the species most closely related to N. acanthus but did not provide evidence for this, probably because the latter was conceived at the time as a species that displayed significant variability. Neoleptastacus huysi differs from the other two members of the acanthus -subgroup by the presence of three elements on P1 exp-3 (instead of four), a condition that is shared with the unrelated trisetosus -group ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ). Karanovic (2000) described the spatulate caudal ramus seta VII as “aesthetasc-like” and erroneously used it as a character to differentiate N. huysi from N. acanthus . Some armature elements on the antennule were overlooked on most segments (particularly 1, 2, 3 and 6). The author also stated “Hind margins of all body somites smooth. First, second and third free thoracic somites with a chitinous suture dorsolaterally, which bears a row of very fine spinules”. The spinular rows referred to by Karanovic in reality represent the crenulated hyaline frills on these somites while the strongly developed abdominal frills, consisting of rectangular digitate lappets, were obviously overlooked. The linear egg-sac of the holotype female contained three eggs. The species is potentially conspecific with N. acanthus (see above).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Copepoda

Order

Harpacticoida

Family

Arenopontiidae

Genus

Neoleptastacus

Loc

Neoleptastacus huysi ( Karanovic, 2000 )

Sak, Serdar, Karaytuğ, Süphan & Huys, Rony 2024
2024
Loc

Neoleptastacus huysi ( Karanovic, 2000 ) Sak et al. (2008: 412)

Sak, S. & Huys, R. & Karaytug, S. 2000: )
2000
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