Sak, S., S. Sönmez & S. Karaytug. (2018). Taxonomic Notes on the Subspecies of Phyllopodopsyllus thiebaudi Petkovski, 1955 (Tetragonicipitidae: Harpacticoida: Copepoda). In: Özcan, G., A.S. Tarkan & T. Özcan (Eds.). Proceedings Volume, International Marine & Freshwater Sciences Symposium, 18-21 October 2018, Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, 401 pp. :183. abstract.

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Sak, S., S. Sönmez & S. Karaytug

2018

:183. abstract

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Genus Phyllopodopsyllus T. Scott 1906 of the family Tetragonicipitidae currently accommodates about 60 species/subspecies and nearly cosmopolitan. The genus characterised by its foliaceous female fifth leg that forms a completely sealed brooding chamber with urosomal somites. The genus was first recorded from Turkish marine waters by Karaytuğ and Sak (2006) with P. briani Petkovski, 1955, P. thiebaudi Petkovski, 1955, and P. pauli Crisafi, 1960 from the coasts of Balıkesir. The aim of this study is to redescribe P. thiebaudi which was originally described from Bulgaria by Petkovski (1955) with a very brief description and also reveal the variations among the populations of the species which are distributed along the coasts of Turkey. The taxonomic status of the subspecies P. thiebaudi santacruzensis Mielke, 1989 is also discussed. For this purpose, P. thiebaudi specimens that were collected with previous studies and stored in the collections of Balıkesir and Mersin University Biology departments as well as the newly collected specimens from a Rockpool in Gazipaşa /Antalya (09.07.2017) have been examined and selected specimens were drawn in detail with a DIC attached Olympus BX-51 and BX-53 microscopes with the help of a drawing tube. Also light microscope photographs were taken with Canon EOS 1200 D that was attached to a Olympus BX-53 binocular microscope and focus stacked with Adobe Photoshop CC graphics software. Keywords: Redescription, taxonomy, biodiversity, fauna.

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