Thursday, December 25, 2025

[Crustacea • 2025] Tropodiaptomus sirindhornae • A New Diaptomid Copepod (Copepoda: Calanoida) from Thailand

 

Tropodiaptomus sirindhornae   
Saetang & Maiphae, 2025

Tropical Natural History. Suppl. 8 
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Abstract
Tropodiaptomus sirindhornae sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on materials collected from both permanent and temporary habitats across several regions of Thailand. This new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the following morphological characters of adult male antennule and fifth leg: the antepenultimate segment of right antennule with straight spinous process reaching between 1/2 and 3/4 of next segment; the inner margin of exopodal segment of left fifth leg with two lobes, and with uniform serration; the basis of right fifth leg has one triangular process and one longitudinal hyaline lamella; and second exopodal segment of right fifth leg is rectangular, posterior surface ornamented with one semicircular hyaline knob on middle close to inner margin and one triangular apophysis on distal outer margin. This species is widely distributed both spatially and temporally.

Keywords: diversity, Diaptomidae, cryptic species, new species, Southeast Asia

Tropodiaptomus sirindhornae sp. nov.
 A–G.male holotype: A.habitus, dorsal view; B.urosome, dorsal view; C.rostrum; D.left antennule, segment 1–13; E.left antennule, segment 14–25; F.right antennule, segment 1–16; G.right antennule, segment 17–22. H.female allotype, urosome, dorsal view. Scale bars = 100 μm.

 Tropodiaptomus sirindhornae sp. nov.
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Thanida Saetang and Supiyanit Maiphae. 2025. Tropodiaptomus sirindhornae sp. nov., A New Diaptomid Copepod (Copepoda: Calanoida) from Thailand. Tropical Natural History. Suppl. 8; 334-344. DOI: doi.org/10.58837/tnh.25.8.266929 [2025-10-20]