Harpacticoid Copepods from the West Indian Islands: Canuellidae and Longipediidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)

Abstract

This paper is the first of a series dealing with the systematics of harpacticoid copepods collected during the West Indian Expeditions of the University of Amsterdam. In the present paper a new species, Scottolana antillensis n. sp., is described. Furthermore, Ellucana secunda Coull, 1971, is compared with E. longicauda Sewell, 1940, and morphological details are given for Longipedia spec.