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Badijella jalzici - a new genus and species of calanoid copepod (Calanoida, Ridgewayiidae) from an anchialine cave on the Croatian Adriatic coast

A new genus and species of calanoid copepod belonging to the family of Ridgewayiidae is described from an anchialine cave on the small island of Badija, Croatia.In the new species Badijella jalzici, body length varies from 720 to 870 um in both sexes. The prosome is 6-segmented, the female urosome is 4-segmented and 5-segmented in the male. The antennules are symetrical and 26-segmented in the female, and 23-segmented on right side in the male, with two areas of geniculation. The caudal rami are symmetrical and longer than wide. The mounthparts and swimming legs 1-4 are identical in both sexes. The female fift leg is biramous and symetrical ; The male fift legs are strongly developed, asymmetrical, biramous on both sides, endopods 2-segmented and exopods 2-segmented and complex in structure.

Stygofauna; copepoda; calanoid copepods; anchialine caves; Adriatic Sea

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