Boreopontia heipi n.g., n.sp., an interstitial harpacticoid (Copepoda) from the Southern Bight of the North Sea
Willems, K.A. (1981). Boreopontia heipi n.g., n.sp., an interstitial harpacticoid (Copepoda) from the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 49: 200-209
Taxa > New taxa > New genera Taxa > Species > New taxa > New species Boreopontia heipi Willems, 1981 [WoRMS]; Copepoda [WoRMS]; Harpacticoida [WoRMS] ANE, Belgium, Flemish Banks, Kwinte Bank [Marine Regions]; ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight [Marine Regions] Marine/Coastal
During a comprehensive investigation of the meiofauna of the Kwinte Bank, a sandbank in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, several specimens were collected of an interstitial harpacticoid of the family Cylindropsyllidae, representing a new genus. These specimens, referred to as Arenopontia sp. A by Willems et al. (in press), occurred in two stations with a pure, very well sorted coarse sand. The physical characteristics were: a median grain size: 402-517 µm; sorting: 0.30-0.24 Ø; mud (<63 µm) content: 0.05-0 % ; gravel (>2000 µm) content: 1.13-0.24 %. The copepod association was dominated by Interleptomesochra eulittoralis Noodt, 1952). Leptastacus laticaudatus intermedius Kunz, 1938, Metacyclopina brevisetosa Herbst, 1974 and Ectinosoma reductum Bozic, 1954.
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