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A new species of Tortanus (Atortus) (Copepoda: Calanoida: Tortanidae) from Rodrigues Island, Mauritius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2003

Susumu Ohtsuka  and
David V.P. Conway
Susumu Ohtsuka
Affiliation:
Fisheries Laboratory, Hiroshima University, 5-8-1 Minato-machi, Takehara, Hiroshima 725-0024, Japan
David V.P. Conway
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2PB, UK
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Abstract

A new species of the copepod genus Tortanus (Atortus) (Copepoda: Calanoida), T. (A.) insularis, is described from the coastal region of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, an isolated island in the south-western Indian Ocean. This new species can be assigned to an Indian faunal element, the recticauda species group, in the Indo-West Pacific recticauda species complex. It exhibits the closest relationship to T. (A.) recticauda recorded from the southern Red Sea and Arabian Gulf, rather than the closer distributed T. (A.) capensis, recorded from off South Africa.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 83 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 355 - 360
Copyright
2003 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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