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A new species of Eulimnadia (Crustacea: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) from New Zealand

Brian V. Timms¹ and Colin McLay²

¹Research Associate, Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney, 2000.
²School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Abstract  Eulimnadia marplesi n. sp. is described from material from a temporary pond near Sutton, South Island, New Zealand. While placement in the genus Eulimnadia is tentative and based on the presence of a spine on the ventroposterior angle of the telson, the species is distinctive based on rostral shape, spination of the claspers, and, to a lesser extent, on the number of telsonic denticles and caudal furca setules. The cyst surface is unique with arêted walls of deep vesicles extruded into tongue-like lamellae.

Keywords  Crustacea; Branchiopoda; Phyllopoda; Diplostraca; Eulimnadia; cyst; taxonomy; temporary pond; Otago; New Zealand

R05005; Received 21 March 2005; accepted 26 July 2005; Online publication date 6 December 2005
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Volume 35, Number 4, December, 2005, pp 409–415

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