Psammoleptastacus, PENNAK, 1942

Sak, Serdar, Huys, Rony & Karaytuğ, Süphan, 2008, Disentangling the subgeneric division of Arenopontia Kunz, 1937: resurrection of Psammoleptastacus Pennak, 1942, re-examination of Neoleptastacus spinicaudatus Nicholls, 1945, and proposal of two new genera and a new generic classification (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152, pp. 409-458 : 412

PSAMMOLEPTASTACUS PENNAK, 1942

P. arenaridus Pennak, 1942 *

P. stygius (Noodt, 1955) comb. nov.

P. barani sp. nov.

ONYCHOPONTIA GEN. NOV.

O. orientalis ( Krishnaswamy, 1957) comb. nov. O. intermedia ( Rouch, 1962) comb. nov. O. peteraxi (Mielke, 1982) comb. nov. O. nichollsi sp. nov. *

MESOPONTIA GEN. NOV.

M. dillonbeachia ( Lang, 1965) comb. nov. *

NEOLEPTASTACUS NICHOLLS, 1945

N. spinicaudatus Nicholls, 1945 *

N. australis (Chappuis, 1952) comb. nov.

N. acanthus (Chappuis, 1954) comb. nov. N. longiremis ( Chappuis, 1955) comb. nov.

N. secundus Krishnaswamy, 1957

N. africanus (Chappuis & Rouch, 1961) comb. nov. N. accraensis ( Lang, 1965) comb. nov.

N. indicus ( Rao, 1967) comb. nov.

N. ishikarianus (Itô, 1968) comb. nov.

N. angolensis ( Kunz, 1971) comb. nov.

N. gussoae ( Cottarelli, 1973) comb. nov.

N. trisetosus (Mielke, 1982) comb. nov.

N. clasingi ( Mielke, 1985) comb. nov.

N. pacificus ( Mielke, 1985) comb. nov.

N. spicatus ( Mielke, 1985) comb. nov.

N. chaufriassei ( Bodiou & Colomines, 1986) comb. nov. N. ornamentus ( Mielke, 1987) comb. nov. N. reductaspina ( Mielke, 1987) comb. nov. N. phreaticus ( Cottarelli et al., 1994) comb. nov. N. speluncae ( Cottarelli et al., 1994) comb. nov. N. huysi ( Karanovic, 2000) comb. nov.

* Type species of respective genera.

Species inquirendae and species incertae sedis is not listed.

the main diagnostic characters for each genus. The updated generic assignment of the 32 valid species in the family is shown in Table 2.