Onychopontia intermedia, (ROUCH, 1962), 2008

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 : 449

ONYCHOPONTIA INTERMEDIA ( ROUCH, 1962)

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Arenopontia intermedia Rouch, 1962

Arenopontia (Arenopontia) intermedia Rouch, 1962 : Bodin (1979)

Original description: Rouch (1962): pp. 277–278; figures 158–166 (♂ unknown).

Type locality: Brazil, Pernambuco State, Recife, Olinda ; sandy beach .

Remarks: Mielke (1985, 1987) commented on the similarity in body sculpturing between O. intermedia and some species of Neoleptastacus ( N. clasingi , N. ornamentus , and N. reductaspina ); however, this was based on an erroneous interpretation of Rouch’s (1962) text and figures. In the Neoleptastacus species the abdominal somites display rectangular integumental plates both ventrally and dorsally. Rouch’s statement that each somite boundary has ‘... une série de cannelures longitudinales en forme de pallissade’ clearly refers to the deeply incised hyaline frill (as suggested by his figs 162, 163, 166). Mielke (1982a) remarked on the discrepancy in the number of spines on P3 enp-2 between Rouch’s (1962) text and his illustration (fig. 160). Onychopontia intermedia is known only from the type locality. The type material is no longer available for examination.