Enterognathus inabai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyclopoida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Copepoda Infraclassis: Neocopepoda Superordo: Podoplea Ordo: Cyclopoida

Familia: Enterognathidae
Genus: Enterognathus
Species: Enterognathus inabai

Name

• Enterognathus inabai Ohtsuka, Shimomura & Kitazawa, 2012: figs 1, 2

Holotype: KMNH IvR 500, 539, ♀, partly dissected, with appendages on 5 slides and body in a vial.

Type locality: From the crinoid Lamprometra sp. collected from the central part of the Seto Inland Sea, western Japan (34°0.590'N, 132°44.32'E–34°0.599'N, 132°44.35'E), at depths of 46.7–46.9 m, November 7, 2011.

Etymology: The new specific name “inabai” is named in honor of the late emeritus Professor Akihiko Inaba (Hiroshima University) who made great contributions to the faunistic surveys of the Seto Inland Sea (Inaba 1983, 1988).

References

• Ohtsuka, Susumu, Michitaka Shimomura & Kota Kitazawa, 2012: A new species of Enterognathus (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Enterognathidae) collected from the Seto Inland Sea, western Japan. ZooKeys, 180: 1–8. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.180.2509.