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A new Nebalia species (Crustacea, Phyllocarida, Leptostraca) from the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2015

Cengiz Koçak  and
Juan Moreira
Cengiz Koçak
Affiliation:
Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University, TR-35100 Bornova Izmir, Turkey
Juan Moreira*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain Estación de Bioloxía Mariña da Graña, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15590 Ferrol, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J. Moreira, Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain email: juan.moreira@uam.es
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Abstract

Nebalia mediterranea sp. nov. (Crustacea, Leptostraca) is described from the Aegean coast of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. The new species is closely related to other sympatric species in the eastern Mediterranean, N. strausi and N. kocatasi, according to general body appearance. The new species differs, however, from other Nebalia species in having a rostrum about 2.5 times as long as wide, the antennular scale is clearly more than twice as long as wide, the fourth article of the antennule has only one short thick distal spine, the third article of the antenna has three similar spine-like setae on external lateral face, the first article of the second maxilla endopod is 1.2 times as long as the second article, the exopod of the second maxilla is longer than the first article of the endopod, pleonites 5–7 have distally rounded to slightly truncated denticles along posterior dorsal borders, the protopod of pleopod 4 has 4 serrations along posterior border, and the terminal seta of the uropods is about 1.8 the length of rami.

Keywords

Nebalia mediterranea sp. nov.taxonomymorphologydiversitydistributionsediment
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 95 , Issue 8 , December 2015 , pp. 1667 - 1675
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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