A5079785552- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Marine and fisheries research
- Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Leech Biology and Applications
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
Natural History Museum
2012-2024
Bupa Cromwell Hospital
2024
American Museum of Natural History
2006-2011
King Saud University
2009
National Health Service
2008
German Oceanographic Museum
2002
Texas A&M University at Galveston
1998
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer
1996
Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics
1988-1992
Ghent University
1988-1992
Summary 1. With few exceptions, copepods dominate over other crustacean and non‐crustacean invertebrate groups in ground water. They have colonised a vast array of habitats continental waters, where they are represented by 1000 species six orders: Platycopioida, Misophrioida, Calanoida, Cyclopoida, Harpacticoida, Gelyelloida. However, members only the last four orders entered genuine fresh 2. Stygobiotic show wide range morphological physiological adaptations to different groundwater...
Both sexes of a new species, Stylicletodes wellsi sp. nov. (Harpacticoida: Cletodidae), are described from material collected sediments in the East China Sea. The species belongs to group whose members characterized by an anal operculum that has backwardly directed, median linguiform process and fifth legs display naked or sparsely pinnate armature elements both sexes. Within this group, S. is morphologically closest reductus Wells, 1965 but differs primarily its European congener pattern P4...
Abstract Loki’s Castle Vent Field (LCVF, 2300 m) was discovered in 2008 and represents the first black-smoker vent field on Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR). However, a comprehensive faunal inventory of LCVF has not yet been published, hindering inclusion biogeographic analyses fauna. There is an urgent need to understand diversity, spatial distribution ecosystem function biological communities along AMOR, which will inform environmental impact assesments future deep-sea mining activities...
Sublittoral meiofauna was sampled for the GEEP Workshop along a putative pollution gradient at 6 sites in FrierfjordlLangesundfjord, Norway.Data were subjected to mutivariate statistical analyses which discriminate between on their faunlstic attributes, and univariate measures of community stress determined.Most mulhvariate techniques produced similar results.The copepod component discriminated better than nematodes species level, but more robust based data aggregated higher taxonomic...
The type material of four monotypic genera, Leaniricola, Oestrella, Praxillinicola and Trophoniphila (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), described by M'Intosh (1885) from deep water polychaete hosts collected during the H.M.S. Challenger expedition, is re-examined. Leaniricola rotundata removed its floating status as species inquirenda in Nereicolidae fixed a new family, Leaniricolidae fam. nov., based on presence an oral cone massive, three-dimensionally expanded, mandibular gnathobases which are used...
Two species of the marine harpacticoid family Pseudotachidiidae (Copepoda) are reported from subtidal sediments in Southern Sea Korea. Psammis wellsi sp. nov. (Danielsseniinae) is most closely related to P. longisetosa Sars, 1910 but differs its European congener ventral ornamentation female genital double-somite, dorsal second abdominal somite male, armature proximal endite maxillary syncoxa, relative setal lengths and general shape P5, length inner seta male P5 endopodal lobe P6. The...
Phylogenetic analysis of newly obtained data from the complete small subunit rDNA (18S) nuclear gene a wide range copepods placed enigmatic Pectenophilus ornatus firmly in Cyclopoida. Both maximum parsimony tree reconstruction, and Bayesian operating under GTR + I Γ model nucleotide substitution, gave identical solutions P. at base poecilostome families, apposition to mytilicolid taxa. The recently suggested assignment Siphonostomatoida on basis tubular mouth cone pygmy male was rejected not...
Type fixation for each of the 601 valid genera (17 placed incertae sedis) and 13 doubtful identity (genera inquirenda) in Harpacticoida (Crustacea, Copepoda) has been verified. Twenty-four genus-group names published after 1930 lack mandatory type are therefore unavailable. With exception Kliopsyllus Kunz, 1962 which is replaced by its senior synonym Emertonia Wilson, 1932, such made available here either attributing original name to first author(s) who explicitly fixed a species...
Comparative analysis of the development antennulary segmentation and setation patterns across six orders copepods revealed numerous common features. These features are combined to produce a hypothetical general model for in Copepoda as whole. In this most compound segments result from failure expression articulations separating ancestral segments. adult males, however, either side neocopepodan geniculation typically formed by secondary fusion at last moult CoV (stage 5). The array distal...
Both sexes of a new brackish-water species, Nannopus sinusalbi sp. nov. (Nannopodidae) are described from the Baha Blanca estuary (3853S, 6207W) in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The only previous record genus study area was identified as type palustris Brady, 1880, with no description or illustrations, hence its authenticity cannot be confirmed. brasiliensis Jakobi, 1956 is relegated to species inquirenda rather than being considered junior synonym species. Nomenclatural issues related...
Both sexes of a new genus and species Ectinosomatidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from sublittoral sediments collected on the inner continental shelf in Ubatuba, São Paulo State (Brazil) are described detail. Chaulionyx gen. n. (type species: C. paivacarvalhoi sp. n.) differs all known genera presence conspicuous bifid spine prehensile P1 endopod. It can be differentiated other with endopod (Halophytophilus Brian, 1919; Bradyellopsis 1925; Klieosoma Hicks & Schriever, 1985) by...
Abstract Copepods are aquatic microcrustaceans and represent the most abundant metazoans on Earth, outnumbering insects nematode worms. Their position of numerical world predominance can be attributed to three principal radiation events, i.e. their major habitat shift into marine plankton, colonization freshwater semiterrestrial environments, evolution parasitism. variety life strategies has generated an incredible morphological plasticity disparity in body form shape that arguably...
A new genus of Tantulocarida, Stygotantulus, is described based on material from an anchialine pool Lanzarote, Canary Islands. It the most primitive tantulocarid known and ectoparasitic representatives at least two families harpacticoid copepods. distinguished by presence 7 abdominal somites in tantulus larva. The musculature penis trunk somite male suggests that it derived modification seventh thoracopods. importance numbers maxillopodan systematics reexamined attempt made to apply concept...