Taurocletodes, KUNZ, 1975

Karaytuǧ, Süphan & Huys, Rony, 2004, Taxonomic position of and generic distinction between Parepactophanes Kunz, 1935 and Taurocletodes Kunz, 1975 (Copepoda, Canthocamptidae incertae sedis), with description of a new species from the Black Sea, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140 (4), pp. 469-486 : 483

GENUS TAUROCLETODES KUNZ, 1975

Diagnosis: Canthocamptidae . Small-sized (<0.5 mm). Body robust, more or less cylindrical with prosome slightly wider than urosome. Anal operculum multispinose. Nauplius eye present. Rostrum long, elongate and hyaline. Antennule 6-segmented in ♀, with aesthetasc on segment 3 and as part of acrothek on segment 6; all elements setiform and bare except for posteriormost seta on segment 2; 10-segmented in ♂, with geniculation between segments 7–8. Antenna with allobasis bearing one abexopodal seta; exopod 1- segmented, bisetose. Mandible with 1-segmented palp bearing four setae. Maxillule with two elements on coxa, four on basis; endopod and exopod represented by one and three setae, respectively. Maxilla with three endites. Maxilliped subchelate, syncoxa with strong spine, basis unarmed, endopod drawn out into claw. P1 with 3-segmented rami; exp-2 with small inner seta; enp-2 with long penicillate seta near boundary with enp-1, enp-3 with short penicillate seta near inner distal corner; endopod much longer than exopod. P2–P 4 ♀ short and robust; with 3-segmented exopods and 2-segmented (P2–P3) or 1-segmented (P4) endopods. Exopods with two outer spines on exp-3; P4 exp-3 inner seta absent. Outer spines of P2–P4 exp-1 and -2 enlarged in ♂, that of P3 exp-1 very large. Endopods P2–P3 sexually dimorphic; inner seta of P2 enp-1 absent in ♂; ♂ P3 endopod 3-segmented; drawn out into short apophysis, without inner seta on enp-1. P1– P4 armature formula as follows (apo = apophysis):

The inner seta on P1 exp-2 is minute in T. tumenae . Noodt (1958b) states explicitly that this segment is unarmed in T. dubius but his figure indicates that the inner seta is present.

Fifth pair of legs medially free in ♀, fused in ♂. Exopod and baseoendopod fused in both sexes. Exopodal lobe with four elements in ♀, five in ♂. Endopodal lobe with four setae in ♀, with two spines in ♂. Genital field of ♀ comprising separate gonopores covered by opercula bearing three pinnate spines; sixth legs asymmetrical in ♂, represented by unarmed opercula. Caudal rami about as long as wide; with six setae, setae IV- V well developed .

Type species: Taurocletodes gallicus Kunz, 1975 = Parepactophanes ? dubia Noodt, 1958b = Taurocletodes dubius ( Noodt, 1958b) comb. nov.

Other species: T. tumenae sp. nov.