Creopelates

Uyeno, Daisuke, 2015, Systematic revision of the pennellid genus Creopelates Shiino, 1958 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) and the proposal of a new genus, Zootaxa 3904 (3), pp. 359-386 : 375

Key to the species of Creopelates

(postmetamorphic adult females)

1 Antennary processes with digitate, branching fringes......................................................... 2

- Antennary processes without digitate, branching fringes....................................................... 3

2 Cephalothorax bearing small conical processes on ventral surface; antennary process with one knob-like inner accessory pro- cess; neck region bearing posterior multiple protrusions....................................... C. lubangensis n. sp.

- Cephalothorax without processes on ventral surface; antennary process without knob-like inner accessory process; neck region without posterior multiple protrusions....................................................... C. nohmijimensis

3 Cephalic lobe small without digitate fringes; neck region fringed with one pair of finely digitate lobes.... C. hoshinoi n. sp.

- Cephalic lobe with digitate fringes; neck region fringed with series of about ten pairs of finely digitate lobes............. 4

4 Cephalothorax rectangular; cephalic lobe with small digitate fringes; leg 4 separated by gap from preceding legs; protopods of legs 3 and 4 separated from respective intercoxal sclerites by long gaps................................... C. floridus

- Cephalothorax round; cephalic lobe with digitate, branching fringes; leg 4 not widely spaced from preceding legs; protopods of legs 3 and 4 connecting to respective intercoxal sclerites........................................ C. shirakawai n. sp.