Nitokra esbe, Karanovic & Eberhard & Cooper & Guzik, 2015

Karanovic, Tomislav, Eberhard, Stefan, Cooper, Steven J. B. & Guzik, Michelle T., 2015, Morphological and molecular study of the genus Nitokra (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) in a small palaeochannel in Western Australia, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 15 (1), pp. 65-99 : 80

Nitokra esbe sp. nov.

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Figures

Fig. 8 Nitokra esbe sp. nov., SEM photographs, a–e, paratype female 1, f, g paratype female 2, h allotype male: a habitus, ventro- lateral; b fifth pedigerous somite and genital double-somite, ventro-lateral; c genital field, ventro-lateral; d left caudal ramus, ventro-lateral; e second swimming leg, ventro-lateral; f urosome, ventral; g antenna, posterior; h central part of right antennula, dorsal. Arrows point at most prominent diagnostic features

Fig. 9 Nitokra esbe sp. nov., SEM photographs, paratype male 1: a habitus, dorsal; b cephalic shield, dorsal; c rostrum, dorsal; d tergites of free prosomites, dorsal; e first three urosomites, dorsal; f last three urosomites and caudal rami, dorsal; g anal somite and caudal rami, dorsal; h posterior- dorsal corner of anal somite, dorsal. Arrows point at most prominent diagnostic features

Fig. 10 Nitokra esbe sp. nov., SEM photographs, paratype male 2: a habitus, lateral; b cephalon, lateral; c free prosomites, lateral; d first two urosomites with fifth and sixth legs, lateral; e third, fourth and fifth urosomites, lateral; f anal somite and caudal rami, lateral; g central part of left antennula, anterior surface; h distal part of antennulae, lateral. Arrows point at most prominent diagnostic features

Fig. 11 Nitokra esbe sp. nov., line drawings, holotype female: a urosome, ventral; b antennula without armature, dorsal; c mandibular palp, anterior; d maxilliped, posterior; e endopod of first swimming leg, anterior; f endopod of second swimming leg, anterior; g intercoxal sclerite of second swimming leg, anterior; h third exopodal segment of second swimming leg, anterior; i third exopodal segment of fourth swimming leg, anterior; j exopod of fifth leg, anterior

Fig. 12 Nitokra esbe sp. nov., line drawings, allotype male: a antennula, ventral; b inner-distal spine on basis of first swimming leg, anterior; c third endopodal segment of third swimming leg, anterior; d third exopodal segment of fourth swimming leg, anterior; e left fifth and sixth legs, anterior