Redescription and first records from Brazil of Diacyclops uruguayensis Kiefer (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopidae)

Reid, Janet W.

doi:10.1590/S0101-81751998000300018

Abstract

Diacyclops uruguayensis Kiefer, 1935 is redescribed from specimens from Santa Catarina and Ceará, Brazil. These new records represent a significant range extension from southern Uruguay.

Copepoda; Cyclopoida; Diacyclops; Brazil; taxonomy; morphology

Redescription and first records from Brazil of Diacyclops uruguayensis Kiefer (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopidae)

Janet W. Reid

Department of Invertebrate Zoology/MRC-163, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC 20560 U.S.A

ABSTRACT

Diacyclops uruguayensis Kiefer, 1935 is redescribed from specimens from Santa Catarina and Ceará, Brazil. These new records represent a significant range extension from southern Uruguay.

Key words: Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Diacyclops, Brazil, taxonomy, morphology

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I am most grateful for gifts of specimens to the collections of the National Museum of Natural History by Drs. Brian H. Kay and Carlos E. F. da Rocha. The manuscript benefited from helpful comments by Dr. da Rocha and an anonymous reviewer. The collectors who collaborated with Dr. Kay are heartily thanked. The Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History afforded me research facilities.

Recebido em 20.VI.1997; aceito em 05.VIII.1998.

BREHM, V. 1935. Über die Süßwasserfauna von Uruguay. Arch. Hydrobiol. 28:295-309.
DAHMS, H.-U. & C.H. FERNANDO. 1993. Redescription of Mesocyclops leuckarti (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), including a study of its naupliar development. Int. Revue ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr. 78 (4):589-609.
DUSSART, B.H. 1984. Some Crustacea Copepoda from Venezuela. Hydrobiologia 113:25-67.
DUSSART, B.H. & D. DEFAYE. 1985. Répertoire Mondial des Copépodes Cyclopoides. Bordeaux, Éditions C.N.R.S., 236p.
FIERS, F.; J.W. REID; T.M. ILIFFE & E. SUÁREZ-MORALES. 1996. New hypogean cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 66 (2):65-102.
FRANKE, U. 1989. Katalog zur Sammlung limnischer Copepoden von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kiefer. Carolinea, Karlsruhe, 5:1-433.
HUYS, R. & G.A. BOXSHALL. 1991. Copepod Evolution. London, The Ray Society, 468p.
KAY, B.H.; C.P. CABRAL; D.B. ARAÚJO; Z.M. RIBEIRO; P.H. BRAGA & A.C. SLEIGH. 1992. Evaluation of a funnel trap for collecting copepods and immature mosquitoes from wells. Jour. Amer. Mosq. Control Ass. 8 (4):372-375.
KIEFER, F. 1935. Neue Süßwassercyclopiden (Crustacea Copepoda) aus Uruguay. Zool. Anz. 109 (7-8):181-188.
______. 1981. Beitrag zur Kenntnis von Morphologie, Taxonomie und geographischer Verbreitung von Mesocyclops leuckarti auctorum. Arch. Hydrobiol., Suppl. 62 (Monogr. Beitr.), 1:148-190.
LINDBERG, K. 1954. Cyclopides (crustacés copépodes) de l'Amérique du Sud. Ark. Zool., N. S., 7 (11):193-222.
MARTEN, G.G., E.S. BORDES & M. NGUYEN. 1994. Use of cyclopoid copepods for mosquito control. Hydrobiologia 292/293:491-496.
MENU MARQUE, S. 1991. Los copépodos del genero Acanthocyclops de Tierra del Fuego. Biol. Acuática 15:142-143.
MORTON, D.W. 1985. Revision of the Australian Cyclopidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), I. Acanthocyclops Kiefer, Diacyclops Kiefer and Australocyclops, gen. nov. Austr. Jour. Mar. Freshw. Res. 36:615-634.
MRÁZEK, A. 1901. Süsswasser-Copepoden. Ergebn. Hamburger Magalhaensische Sammelreise 6:1-29.
PESCE, G.L. 1995. The genus Diacyclops Kiefer in Italy: a taxonomic, ecological and biogeographical up-to-date review (Crustacea Copepoda Cyclopidae). Arthropoda Selecta 3 (3-4):13-19.
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REID, J.W. 1985. Chave de identificação e lista de referências bibliográficas para as espécies continentais sulamericanas de vida livre da ordem Cyclopoida (Crustacea, Copepoda). Bolm Zool., Univ. São Paulo 9:17-143.
______. 1988. Cyclopoid and harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea) from Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia. Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 107:190-202.
______. 1992. Redescription of Diacyclops nearcticus (Kiefer, 1934) and description of four similar new congeners from North America, with comments on D. crassicaudis (G.O. Sars, 1863) and D. crassicaudis var. brachycercus (Kiefer, 1927) (Crustacea: Copepoda). Can. Jour. Zool. 70 (7):1445-1469.
REID, J.W. & D.L. STRAYER. 1994. Diacyclops dimorphus, a new species of cyclopoid copepod from Florida, with comments on morphology of interstitial cyclopine cyclopoids. Jour. N. Amer. Benthol. Soc. 13 (2):250-265.
ROCHA, C.E.F. DA. 1994. New species of Metacyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) from Brazil, with remarks on M. campestris. Zoologica Scr. 23 (2):133-146.

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10 July 2009
Date of issue
1998

History

Received
20 June 1997
Accepted
05 Aug 1998

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[1] BREHM, V. 1935. Über die Süßwasserfauna von Uruguay. Arch. Hydrobiol. 28:295-309.

[2] DAHMS, H.-U. & C.H. FERNANDO. 1993. Redescription of Mesocyclops leuckarti (Copepoda, Cyclopoida), including a study of its naupliar development. Int. Revue ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr. 78 (4):589-609.

[3] DUSSART, B.H. 1984. Some Crustacea Copepoda from Venezuela. Hydrobiologia 113:25-67.

[4] DUSSART, B.H. & D. DEFAYE. 1985. Répertoire Mondial des Copépodes Cyclopoides. Bordeaux, Éditions C.N.R.S., 236p.

[5] FIERS, F.; J.W. REID; T.M. ILIFFE & E. SUÁREZ-MORALES. 1996. New hypogean cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 66 (2):65-102.

[6] FRANKE, U. 1989. Katalog zur Sammlung limnischer Copepoden von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kiefer. Carolinea, Karlsruhe, 5:1-433.

[7] HUYS, R. & G.A. BOXSHALL. 1991. Copepod Evolution. London, The Ray Society, 468p.

[8] KAY, B.H.; C.P. CABRAL; D.B. ARAÚJO; Z.M. RIBEIRO; P.H. BRAGA & A.C. SLEIGH. 1992. Evaluation of a funnel trap for collecting copepods and immature mosquitoes from wells. Jour. Amer. Mosq. Control Ass. 8 (4):372-375.

[9] KIEFER, F. 1935. Neue Süßwassercyclopiden (Crustacea Copepoda) aus Uruguay. Zool. Anz. 109 (7-8):181-188.

[10] ______. 1981. Beitrag zur Kenntnis von Morphologie, Taxonomie und geographischer Verbreitung von Mesocyclops leuckarti auctorum. Arch. Hydrobiol., Suppl. 62 (Monogr. Beitr.), 1:148-190.

[11] LINDBERG, K. 1954. Cyclopides (crustacés copépodes) de l'Amérique du Sud. Ark. Zool., N. S., 7 (11):193-222.

[12] MARTEN, G.G., E.S. BORDES & M. NGUYEN. 1994. Use of cyclopoid copepods for mosquito control. Hydrobiologia 292/293:491-496.

[13] MENU MARQUE, S. 1991. Los copépodos del genero Acanthocyclops de Tierra del Fuego. Biol. Acuática 15:142-143.

[14] MORTON, D.W. 1985. Revision of the Australian Cyclopidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), I. Acanthocyclops Kiefer, Diacyclops Kiefer and Australocyclops, gen. nov. Austr. Jour. Mar. Freshw. Res. 36:615-634.

[15] MRÁZEK, A. 1901. Süsswasser-Copepoden. Ergebn. Hamburger Magalhaensische Sammelreise 6:1-29.

[16] PESCE, G.L. 1995. The genus Diacyclops Kiefer in Italy: a taxonomic, ecological and biogeographical up-to-date review (Crustacea Copepoda Cyclopidae). Arthropoda Selecta 3 (3-4):13-19.

[17] ¹⁷
REID, J.W. 1985. Chave de identificação e lista de referências bibliográficas para as espécies continentais sulamericanas de vida livre da ordem Cyclopoida (Crustacea, Copepoda). Bolm Zool., Univ. São Paulo 9:17-143.

[18] ______. 1988. Cyclopoid and harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea) from Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia. Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 107:190-202.

[19] ______. 1992. Redescription of Diacyclops nearcticus (Kiefer, 1934) and description of four similar new congeners from North America, with comments on D. crassicaudis (G.O. Sars, 1863) and D. crassicaudis var. brachycercus (Kiefer, 1927) (Crustacea: Copepoda). Can. Jour. Zool. 70 (7):1445-1469.

[20] REID, J.W. & D.L. STRAYER. 1994. Diacyclops dimorphus, a new species of cyclopoid copepod from Florida, with comments on morphology of interstitial cyclopine cyclopoids. Jour. N. Amer. Benthol. Soc. 13 (2):250-265.

[21] ROCHA, C.E.F. DA. 1994. New species of Metacyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) from Brazil, with remarks on M. campestris. Zoologica Scr. 23 (2):133-146.

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