A new species of Monstrilla (Copepoda, Monstrilloida) from the western Caribbean with comments on M. wandelii Stephensen, 1913 and M. conjunctiva Giesbrecht, 1893

• Main Author: Suárez-Morales, Eduardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2022
• Subjects: Biota; Animalia; Arthropoda; Copepoda; Neocopepoda; Podoplea; Monstrilloida; Monstrillidae; Monstrilla; Mexican Caribbean; morphology; protelean endoparasites; taxonomy; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Morales; Landeros; Antarc*; Subarctic; Copepods
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7296213; https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1128.84944

The taxonomic study of monstrilloid copepods is hampered by incomplete early descriptions, uncertain synonymies, and the difficulty of reliably matching males and females of species. A re-evaluation of male monstrilloid specimens collected from two reef areas of the Mexican Caribbean allowed me to c...