Laophontodes T. Scott, 1894

George, Kai Horst, Lehmanski, Linda Maria Anne & Kihara, Terue Cristina, 2020, Revision of the genus Laophontodes T. Scott (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Ancorabolidae), including the description of a new species and a key to species, ZooKeys 997, pp. 17-46 : 17

Genus Laophontodes T. Scott, 1894

Species composition.

L. typicus T. Scott, 1894 (type species); L. antarcticus Brady, 1918, L. georgei Lee & Huys, 2019, L. gertraudae George, 2018, L. macclintocki Schizas & Shirley, 1994, L. monsmaris George, 2018, L. mourois Arroyo, George, Benito & Maldonado, 2003, L. sabinegeorgeae George & Gheerardyn, 2015, L. sarsi George, 2018, L. scottorum George, 2018, L. spongiosus Schizas & Shirley, 1994, L. whitsoni T. Scott, 1912 (cf. George 2020); species inquirenda: L. propinquus Brady, 1910.

Remarks.

Lee and Huys (2019) listed 18 species in Laophontodes - 15 valid species plus one species incertae sedis ( L. propinquus Brady, 1910) and two species inquirendae ( L. antarcticus Brady, 1918, L. ornatus Krishnaswamy, 1957). The number of species was updated by George et al. (2019), who established the genus Bicorniphontodes George, Glatzel & Schröder, 2019 to include the then newly described B. clarae George, Glatzel & Schröder, 2019, along with Laophontodes bicornis A. Scott, 1896, L. hamatus (Thomson, 1883), L. horstgeorgei George & Gheerardyn, 2015, and L. ornatus Krishnaswamy, 1957. George et al. (2019) reduced the number of species allocated to Laophontodes to 14. Of these, Laophontodes brevis Nicholls, 1944 was excluded from the current analysis: although Lee and Huys (2019: 367) are certainly right when insisting on its validity as a species, since Lang (1965) did not formally synonymise L. brevis with L. bicornis (now Bicorniphontodes bicornis ), the remarkable similarity of L. brevis with B. bicornis noted by Lang (1965) clearly points to its affiliation to Bicorniphontodes instead to Laophontodes . Therefore, we follow the list of 13 species of Laophontodes as provided by George (2020).