Laophontodes T. Scott 1894

Genus Laophontodes T. Scott, 1894 The taxon comprises 14 species (cf. George & Gheerardyn 2015; George 2017). Type species: L. typicus T. Scott, 1894. Additional species: L. bicornis A. Scott, 1896, L. gracilipes Lang, 1936, L. hamatus (Thomson, 1882), L. horstgeorgei George & Gheerardyn, 20...

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Main Author: George, Kai Horst
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5989054
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5989054
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Summary:Genus Laophontodes T. Scott, 1894 The taxon comprises 14 species (cf. George & Gheerardyn 2015; George 2017). Type species: L. typicus T. Scott, 1894. Additional species: L. bicornis A. Scott, 1896, L. gracilipes Lang, 1936, L. hamatus (Thomson, 1882), L. horstgeorgei George & Gheerardyn, 2015, L. macclintocki Schizas & Shirley, 1994, L. mourois Arroyo, George, Benito & Maldonado, 2003, L. multispinatus Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008, L. ornatus Krishnaswamy, 1957, L. propinquus Brady, 1910, L. sabinegeorgeae George & Gheerardyn, 2015, L. spongiosus Schizas & Shirley, 1994, L. whitsoni T. Scott, 1912; species incertae sedis: L. antarcticus Brady, 1918. An amended generic diagnosis was recently provided by George & Gheerardyn (2015). The setation of swimming legs is summarized for all redescribed species in Table 1. Published as part of George, Kai Horst, 2018, Laophontodes typicus T. Scott (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontodinae) - discovering a species complex by morphology, pp. 1-43 in European Journal of Taxonomy 439 on page 4, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2018.439, http://zenodo.org/record/1255053