Description of Pseudoameiropsis suphankaraytugi sp. nov. (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ameiridae) with the first report of the genus Pseudoameiropsis Pallares, 1982 outside of the South Atlantic Ocean

Abstract

A new species of the monotypic genus Pseudoameiropsis was found in samples collected from the eastern Mediterranean coastof Turkey. The new species can be separated from P. argentinus by the armature formula in the endopod of the second to fourth swimminglegs (0, 1, 021; 0, 1, 121; 0, 1, 121 in P. argentinus, but 1, 1, 221; 1, 1, 221; 1, 1, 221 in the new species), and armature complement in thethird exopodal segment of the fourth swimming leg (with eight setae/spines in the new species, but seven elements in P. argentinus). Thegeneral shape and armature of the female fifth leg is similar in the two species but some minor differences in their ornamentation wereobserved. This is also the first record of the genus in the Mediterranean Sea and outside of the South Atlantic Ocean.