Boroecia hopcrofti Stępień & Błachowiak-Samołyk & Krawczuk & Angel 2018, new species ...

• Main Authors: Stępień, A., Błachowiak-Samołyk, K., Krawczuk, M., Angel, M. V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Ostracoda; Halocyprida; Halocyprididae; Boroecia; Boroecia hopcrofti; Arctic; Gulf of Alaska; Zooplankton; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5958709; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5958709

2.6. Boroecia hopcrofti new species (Figures 16–18) Etymology. The species is named after Professor Russ Hopcroft, both in recognition of his considerable contributions to the study of zooplankton especially in the Arctic, and for facilitating our studies of the halocyprids from the Canadian Deep and from the Gulf of Alaska. Type locality. Holotype: A male 2.64 mm long, dissected, stained with lignin pink and mounted on slides. Collected at Healy 0 502 station 13, 15th July 2005 at the type locality 75°15.8’N, 161° 12’W; depth 750– 500 m. Deposited at the Natural History Museum London NHMUK2016-628. Paratype: A female 2.76 mm long, dissected, stained with lignin pink and mounted on slides. Collected in the same samples as the holotype. Museum registration number NHMUK 2016-629. The other material examined is listed in Appendix 1. Male. Carapace (Figures 16 A,B). The length is 2.67 ± 0.069 mm (Table 1), the height, that is 40.0% CL is only slightly greater than the width (38.4% CL). The lateral outline is ... : Published as part of Stępień, A., Błachowiak-Samołyk, K., Krawczuk, M. & Angel, M. V., 2018, A revision of the genus Boroecia Poulsen 1973 (Ostracoda, Halocypridae) with the descriptions of three new species, pp. 301-346 in Zootaxa 4394 (3) on pages 335-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199710 ...