Arenopontia subterranea Kunz, 1937 sensu Rao (1991)

Sak, Serdar, Karaytuğ, Süphan & Huys, Rony, 2024, A revision of the genus Arenopontia Kunz, 1937 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae), including the description of five new species, Zootaxa 5433 (1), pp. 1-50 : 42

Arenopontia subterranea Kunz, 1937 sensu Rao (1991)

Rao (1991) provided a brief text description based on two specimens (body length 300–320 μm; no sex specified) collected from medium coralline sand near the mid-water level of lagoon beaches on Kavaratti and Agatti, Lakshadweep ( India). He claimed that his material showed minor variations with Kunz’s (1937) description in the armature of the body appendages, in particular the shape of the modified setae on P1 exp-3 and the distal endopod segment of P2 and P4. Rao (1991) also stated that the antennary exopod carried two setae, a unique character within the Arenopontiidae (see also Arlt 1983: Fig. 17 ). Without any illustrations given, the authenticity of this record cannot be confirmed.

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FIGURE 17. Arenopontia syltensis sp. nov.: (A) habitus ♀, lateral; (B) habitus ♀, dorsal; (C) posterior part of anal somite and left caudal ramus ♂, lateral; (D) posterior part of anal somite and right caudal ramus ♀, lateral