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Issue: Vol. 618 No. 1: 27 Aug. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.618.1.1
Page range: 1–12
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 32

Kaloketos pilosus, a new genus and species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Turks and Caicos Islands

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 57, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77553-1675, USA
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, USA
Crustacea Remipedia Speleonectidae Kaloketos anchialine caves sympatry biogeography

Abstract

We describe a new genus and species of remipede crustacean from an anchialine cave on the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean region. Kaloketos pilosus is a medium-sized species of robust build that occurs in sympatry with other remipedes, and is recognized as a new genus of the family Speleonectidae. Kaloketos is distinguished from other genera of Remipedia by several unique characters that include dense fields of short, feathered setae on most maxillary and maxillipedal segments, and distinctly expanded rami of the larger trunk limbs.

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