Hemicyclops japonicus Itoh & Nishida, 1993

Lee, Jimin, Chang, Cheon Young & Kim, Il-Hoi, 2022, Symbiotic copepods (Cyclopoida and Siphonostomatoida) collected by light trap from Korea, ZooKeys 1115, pp. 1-71 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1115.83266

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hemicyclops japonicus Itoh & Nishida, 1993
status

 

Hemicyclops japonicus Itoh & Nishida, 1993

Material examined.

Two ♀♀, Site 11, 16 Apr. 2014; 20 ♀♀, 17 ♂♂, Site 22, 31 May 2021; 1 ♀, Site 24, 16 May 2019.

Remarks.

This species is easily identifiable due to the characteristic genital double-somite of the female, which has a deep lateral constriction between the anterior third and posterior two-thirds and a pointed process on each lateral margin. The host of this copepod is still unknown.