Eurycercus chernovi Bekker & Kotov, 2016, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Bekker, Eugeniya I., Kotov, Alexey A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Branchiopoda; Diplostraca; Eurycercidae; Eurycercus; Eurycercus chernovi; Arctic; Pyasina; Taimyr; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631055; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD879F9C3DFF9656A32AC7E058FDF3

Eurycercus chernovi sp. nov. (Figs 9–12) Etymology. This species is named after a renown Russian zoologist Yu.I. Chernov (1934–2012), because the taxon was first detected in the samples collected by him in 1969–1971. Type locality. A lake about 150 m in diameter, north of settlement of Ust' Tareya, Taimyr Autonomous Area, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia. Coordinates: N73.25792º; E 90.59356º. Type material. Holotype. A parthenogenetic female in 96% alcohol, MGU ML149. Paratypes. 16 parthenogenetic ♀♀ in 96% alcohol, MGU ML150. 23 parthenogenetic ♀♀ in 96% alcohol, AAK M-2764. All paratypes are from the type locality. The type series was collected in 0 8.08.2010 by O.L. Makarova. Other material excluded from type series: all from Taimyr Autonomous Area, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia : 2 parthenogenetic ♀♀ from a small foodplain lake near River Tareya, a tributary of River Pyasina, coll. in 0 9.08.1969 by Yu.I. Chernov, AAK 1999-047; 3 parthenogenetic ♀♀ from River Tareya, a tributary of River Pyasina, coll. in 0 9.08.1969 by Yu.I. Chernov, AAK 1999-051; 2 parthenogenetic ♀♀ from unknown water body near Ust' Tareya, coll. in 12.08.1971 by Yu.I. Chernov, AAK 2013-050; 50 parthenogenetic ♀♀ from a small lake (N73.26169°, E90,57555°) in valley inside hummocky tundra, coll. in 0 8.08.2010 by O.L. Makarova, AAK M- 2765; 30 parthenogenetic ♀♀ from springs (N73.2553°, E90.58605°) in gullies within hummocky tundra, coll. in 0 8.08.2010 by O.L. Makarova, AAK M-2767; 8 parthenogenetic ♀♀ and 2 ♂♂ from a small lake 1 (N73.25873°, E90,58963°) at the margin of a polygonal bog, near outlier (depth about 2–2.5 m), coll. in 0 7.08.2010 by O.L. Makarova, AAK M-2768; 15 exuvia of parthenogenetic ♀♀ from Lake Taimyr (N74.66°, E100.9°), N portion of Taimyr Peninsula, coll. in 0 4.08.1999 by S.D. Pavlov, AAK 1999-092; 2 parthenogenetic ♀♀ from puddles 1–3 (N74.32°, E86.91°) near the creek, Arctic Coast of Taimyr Peninsula, coll. in 24.06.2007 by I.Yu. Popov, AAK M- 0570; 5 parthenogenetic ♀♀ from a swamp (N74.32°, E86.91°) at a creek, ...