The genus Neocyclops Gurney, 1927, sensu Petkovski, 1986, includes 24 species, widespread in coastal, surface and subterranean (anchialine), habitats of Northeast and Tropical Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Black and Red seas and the Indian (Australia) and Pacific (Papua, New Guinea) oceans, with an endemism index of about 95%.
Petkovski (1986) splitted the genus into two subgenera according to the number of exopodal segments of the male fifth leg. Particularly, species with male exopod of leg 5 4-segmented (plesiomorphic state ?) are grouped in the subgenus Protoneocyclops, and species with the same exopod 3-segmented (apomorphic state ?) are included in the subgenus Neocyclops s. str.
The subgenus Protoneocyclops comprises seven species: P. mediterraneus (Kiefer, 1960); P. stocki Pesce, 1985; P. papuensis Fiers, 1986; P. herbsti Petkovski, 1986; P. wellsi Petkovski, 1986; P.geltrudeae Pesce & Galassi, 1993; P. ferrarii Rocha, 1995 Other species have still an undefined subgeneric position.
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FIERS FRANK
HERBST H.V.
KARANOVIC T. , PhD
Research Professor
PESCE G. L.
PETKOVSKI T.K.
ROCHA CARLOS E.
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