Arenopontia subterranea Kunz, 1937 sensu Lindgren (1976)

Sak, Serdar, Karaytuğ, Süphan & Huys, Rony, 2024, A revision of the genus Arenopontia Kunz, 1937 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae), including the description of five new species, Zootaxa 5433 (1), pp. 1-50 : 41

Arenopontia subterranea Kunz, 1937 sensu Lindgren (1976)

Lindgren (1972, 1976) found several females in a fully exposed high-energy sandy beach, west of Ocean Steamer Pier on the oceanic side of Bogue Bank (76°50’00” W, 34°41’30” N), in North Carolina ( U.S.A.). No body length measurements were given but some illustrations of the female were presented. Lindgren (1976: 229–231; Fig. 2c, e–g ) maintained that his specimens were not notably different from Kunz’s (1937) description, having the same setal formula on P2–P4 but lacking the foliaceous seta VII on the caudal ramus. His illustration of the P1 lacks the inner penicillate seta, showing only three elements on exp-3, but confirms that the North Carolina material belongs to Group I. More detailed information (e.g. caudal ramus, ♂ P5–P6) is needed before Lindgren’s (1976) material can be confirmed as the first amphi-Atlantic record of the species, however, the relative length of P1 enp-1 (enp-1 8.2 times as long as wide; enp-1:exp ratio 1.35) appears to refute this.

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FIGURE 2. Arenopontia anatolica sp. nov. (♀): (A) habitus, lateral; (B) habitus, dorsal.