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A new species of poecilostomatoid copepod, Hemicyclops spinulosus, is described from burrows of the ocypodid crab Macrophthalmus japonicus in an estuarine mud-flat in Tokyo Bay. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the segmentation and setation of first antenna, the ornamentation of maxilliped and the modified seta on the first segment of the endopod of legs 1–4.
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Itoh, H., Nishida, S. A new species of Hemicyclops (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida) from burrows of the ocypodid crab Macrophthalmus japonicus in an estuarine mud-flat in Tokyo Bay, Japan. Hydrobiologia 379, 85–92 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003423912372
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