Foweya tertia (Kunz) Gee, 2006

Gee, J. Michael, 2006, Parastenheliidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Isles of Scilly, Journal of Natural History 40 (47 - 48), pp. 2611-2652 : 2631-2634

Foweya tertia (Kunz) comb. nov.

( Figures 12 , 13 )

Synonyms

Parastenhelia anglica in Kunz (1963), Karllangia tertia Kunz, 1975 .

Material examined

From paratypes held in Zoologisches Museum Hamburg Reg. No. K 30368 (collected from shell gravel in tidal pools on a reef off East London , South Africa, Kunz, 1975), 1♀ and 1 „ (each dissected onto three slides) NMH Reg Nos 2006.1986–1987 and 1♀ spirit preserved, NHM Reg. No. 2006.1988 .

Description of female

As described by Kunz (1975) with following additions or corrections. Body length of two specimens measured 0.39 mm. Operculum ( Figure 12D ) semi-circular, ornamented with numerous very fine spinules, only visible under x100 oil immersion. Otherwise body ( Figure 12A–C ), mouthparts, swimming legs and P5 as for F. anglica . Note that this implies that there is some deviation from the original description in the setation of some of the mouthparts and of the P3 enp 3 given in Table 5 in Kunz (1975).

Description of male

Slightly smaller than female. As for male of F. anglica in body ornamentation ( Figure 12E ) and sexually dimorphic inner spine on P1 basis ( Figure 13A ). Differs from K. anglica in that P2 endopod ( Figure 13B ) is only two-segmented but still carries the same number of setae; the P5 exopod ( Figure 13C ) bears only five setae (the median inner short seta in F. anglica is missing) and the two setae on the baseoendopod are equal in length.

Figures

Figure 12. Foweya tertia comb. nov. ♀ urosome: (A) dorsal view; (B) lateral view; (C) ventral view; (D) operculum and caudal ramus, dorsal view. „: (E) urosome, excluding P5 bearing somite, ventral view.

Figure 13. Foweya tertia comb. nov. „: (A) P1 basis; (B) P2; (C) P5.