Title: Description of unknown small calanoid copepod species from the bathypelagic of the Arctic Ocean
Principal Investigator Dr. Vladimir Andronov, Institute of Oceanology (Kaliningrad Branch), Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
Project goals
The proposed work will concentrate on examination of the morphological features and clarification of taxonomic position of small (<0.8 mm) calanoid copepod species from the Arctic Ocean’s deep basins.
Results
Six new species of the poorly studied family Discoidae were described during the course of this project with a manuscript accepted to Zootaxa. These and other small (<0.8 mm) calanoid species make up ~10% of the copepod species in Russian deep water zooplankton samples from the 1990-2007. Because several species were unidentified and their taxonomic position was not clear, they were not included in previous inventories of the Arctic.