The genus Neocyclops Gurney, 1927, sensu Petkovski, 1986, includes 16 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 endemis 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 . The subgenus Neocyclops embraces six species: N. salinarum (Gurney, 1927); N. remanei (Herbst, 1952); N. medius Herbst, 1955; N. vicinus (Herbst, 1955); N. affinis (Plesa, 1961); N. petkovskii De Laurentiis, Pesce & Halse, 1997.
Other three species, N. parvus (Sewell, 1949) and N. magnus (Sewell, 1949), both from the Indian Ocean (Maldive Archipelago), and N. improvisus Plesa, 1973, from Cuba, have still an undefined subgeneric position as their males are unknown.
DE LAURENTIIS P., G.L.PESCE & S.A. HALSE. 1997. Discovery of the first representative of the genus Neocyclops Gurney in Australia, and description of Neocyclops (Neocyclops) petkovskii n.sp. (Copepoda, Halicyclopinae). Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 16 (3): 15-19
FIERS F. 1986. New and interesting copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) from brackish waters of Laing Island (Northern Papua New Guinea). Leopold III Biological Station, Lain Island - Contribution n° 96. Bull. van het Konin. Belg. Inst. voor Natur., 56: 99-120
JAUME D. & G.A. BOXSHALL. 1996. Rare cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea) from Mediterranean littoral caves. Bull. nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Zool.), 62 (2): 83-99
PESCE G.L., 1985. Amsterdam expeditions to the West Indian Islands. Report 45. Cyclopids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from West Indian groundwater habitats. Bijdr. Dierk., Amsterdam, Olanda, 55 (2): 295-323
PESCE G. L. & D. P. GALASSI, 1993. Amsterdam expeditions to the West Indian Islands. Report 74. The genus Neocyclops Gurney in the West Indies: an update and description of Neocyclops (Protoneocyclops) geltrudeae n.sp. (Crustacea Copepoda: Cyclopidae). Bijdr. Dierk., Amsterdam, Olanda, 63 (2):115-120.
PETKOVSKI T.K. 1986. Zur Taxonomie des Genus Neocyclops Gurney, 1927 (Crustacea, Copepoda Cyclopoida). Acta Mus. maced. sci. nat., 18 (2/148); 27-46
ROCHA C.E.F. 1995. Neocyclops (Protoneocyclops) ferrarii, a new species of cyclopid (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from Belize, with remarks on the morphology of the genus Neocyclops. Contributions to Zoology, 65 (1): 41-51.
BOXSHALL G.A.
DE LAURENTIIS PAOLA
FIERS FRANK
HERBST H.V.
PESCE GIUSEPPE L.
PETKOVSKI T.K.
PLESA CORNELIU
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