NORMANELLIDAE Lang, 1944 sensu Huys & Willems, 1989

"Normanellidae is one of the smallest families in the order Harpacticoida. However, Lee and Huys (1999) recently described several new members of the family and suggested the species diversity of the normanellid copepods is underestimated. The family was first established by Nicholls (1945) for the genera Normanella Brady and Cletopsyllus Willey, but was refuted by Lang (1948). Lang (1944) introduced the subfamily name Normanellinae in the Laophontidae, which included Normanella, Cletopsyllus, Pseudocleta Lang and Laophontopsis Sars. Huys and Willems (1989) proposed Laophontopsidae for the genus Laophontopsis, and upgraded the subfamily Normanellinae to full family rank. The remaining genera were allocated to two subfamilies within the upgraded Normanellidae. Normanellinae was restricted to its type genus Normanella, Cleptopsyllinae included Cletopsyllus and Pseudocletopsyllus Vervoort was regarded as genus incertae sedis. Huys and Lee (1998) upgraded Cletopsyllinae to full family rank, Cleptopsyllidae, and automatically upgraded Normanellinae to family rank.

The family Normanellidae currently includes five genera. (from Lee, Montagna & Han, 2003; Gomez & Nazari, 2021)


NORMANELLA Brady, 1880

Type-species : Normanella dubia Brady & Robertson in Brady (1880)

  • Normanella aberrans Bodin, 1968 (syn. Sagamiella aberrans (Bodin, 1968)
  • Normanella attenuata Scott A., 1896 accepted (syn.Leptomesochra attenuata (Scott A., 1896); Interleptomesochra attenuata (Scott A., 1896)
  • Normanella bifida Lee & Huys, 1999 [Western Pacific, Sagami Bay]
  • Normanella bolini Lang, 1965 [USA; marine]
  • Normanella brevispina Lee, Montagna & Han, 2003 [Mexico; marine]
  • Normanella chanhoi Lee, Montagna & Han, 2003 [Mexico; marine]
  • Normanella confluens Lang, 1965 [USA; marine]
  • Normanella dubia Brady & Robertson in Brady (1880) [Europe; marine]
  • Normanella incerta Lang, 1934 [Campbell island; marine]
  • Normanella minuta (Boeck, 1873) [Europe, north Africa, Bermuda; marine]
  • Normanella mucronata mucronata Sars, 1909 [Europe; marin]
  • Normanella mucronata quinquesetata Monard, 1928
  • Normanella obscura Lee & Huys, 1999 [England; marine]
  • Normanella pallaresae Lee & Huys, 1999 [Western Pacific]
  • Normanella paratenuifurca Lee & Huys, 1999 [Norfolk; marine]
  • Normanella parvisetosa Kim et al., 2022 [Korea]
  • Normanella porosa Noodt, 1964 [Red Sea]
  • Normanella quarta Monard, 1935 [France, Algerie; marine]
  • Normanella reducta (Noodt, 1955) [Marmara sea]
  • Normanella sarsi Lee & Huys, 1999 [Norway; marine]
  • Normanella semitica Monard, 1935 [Africa, Tunisie; marine]
  • Normanella serrata Por, 1959 [Black Sea] (species dubia)
  • Normanella similis Lang, 1936 [north Europe; marine]
  • Normanella spinosa Kim K., Cho & W. Lee, 2014
  • Normanella tenuifurca Sars, 1909 [Europe; marine]
  • Normanella texana Lee, Montagna & Han, 2003 [Mexico; marine]

    REVIEW OF AND KEYS TO THE GENUS


    SPECIES INQUIRENDAE : Normanella minuta sensu Willey (1930); Normanella minuta sensu Bodin (1972); Normanella mucronata sensu Marinov (1977); Normanella quarta Monard, 1935; Normanella serrata sensu Marinov & Apostolov (1985); Normanella semitica Monard, 1935

    REVIEW OF THE GENUS NORMANELLA


    SAGAMIELLA Lee & Huys, 1999

  • Sagamiella aberrans (Bodin, 1968) [France; marine]
  • Sagamiella latirostrata Lee & Huys, 1999 [ Western Pacific, Japan; cold seeps] Kihara & Huys, 2009


    PSEUDOCLETODES Sars, 1920


  • Pseudocletodes typicus Sars, 1920
  • Pseudocletodes vararensis Lang 1948


    PARANAIARA Kihara & Huys, 2009

  • Paranaiara inajae Kihara & Huys, 2009 [Brazil; marine]


    ARKTOURELLA Gomez & Nazari, 2021

  • Arktourella margarethae Gomez & Nazari, 2021 [Mexico]



    RELEVANT LITERATURE AND KEYS


    Huys R. & W. Lee. 1998/99. On the relationships of the Normanellidae and the recognition of Cletopsyllidae grad. nov. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Zool. Anz., 237. 267-290.

    Lee W. & R. Huys. 1999. New Normanellidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Western Pacific cold seeps including a review of the genus Normanella. cash. Biol. Mar.,40: 203-262.

    W. Lee, P. A. Montagna & M.-S. Han. 2003. Three new species of the genus Normanella Brady (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Gulf of Mexico. J. Nat. Hist., 37 (10): 1219-1245.



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