Praxillinicola kroyeri ...

• Main Author: Huys, Rony
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Poecilostomatoida; Clausiidae; Praxillinicola; Praxillinicola kroyeri; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Malmgren; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Copepods
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6071943; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6071943

Praxillinicola kroyeri —Type of a new family Praxillinicolidae M’Intosh (1885) established the genus Praxillinicola for a new species found attached to the maldanid Praxillella abyssorum (M’Intosh, 1885) in the Antarctic Ocean. Having been collected at 3,510 m depth it constitutes one of the deepest records of a copepod associated with a polychaete host (Conradi et al. 2015). M’Intosh (1885) recognized a superficial similarity in body form between Praxillinicola kroyeri M’Intosh, 1885 and Rhodinicola elongata Levinsen, 1878 (he had no access to the description of the closely related and possibly congeneric Donusa clymenicola Nordmann, 1864). Since R. elongata had previously been included in the Clausiidae (Giesbrecht 1895; Wilson & Illg 1955) this misleading assertion led Southward (1964) to assign P. kroyeri to the same family. Rhodinicola elongata is associated with Rhodine gracilior Tauber, 1879 and R. loveni Malmgren, 1865, also maldanid polychaete hosts, but differs substantially (as M’Intosh ... : Published as part of Huys, Rony, 2016, Enigmas from the past: M'Intosh's (1885) annelidicolous copepods from the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, pp. 355-385 in Zootaxa 4174 (1) on page 365, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4174.1.22, http://zenodo.org/record/262257 ...