Taxonomic position of and generic distinction between Parepactophanes Kunz, 1935 and Taurocletodes Kunz, 1975 (Copepoda, Canthocamptidae incertae sedis), with description of a new species from the Black Sea Author Karaytuǧ, Süphan Author Huys, Rony text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2004 2004-04-30 140 4 469 486 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00101.x journal article 3958 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00101.x 18c536db-6020-42c6-ba39-48be66b42f3d 0024-4082 4634523

Diagnosis: Canthocamptidae. Small-sized (< 0.5 mm). Body cylindrical, prosome hardly wider than urosome. Anal operculum multispinose (bare in ♂?). Nauplius eye present. Rostrum short and blunt. Antennule 6-segmented in ♀, with aesthetasc on segment 3 (and most likely as part of acrothek on segment 6); all elements setiform and bare; subchirocer in ♂. Antenna with allobasis bearing one abexopodal seta; exopod 1- segmented, bisetose. Mandible with 1-segmented palp bearing four setae. Maxillule and maxilla unconfirmed. Maxilliped subchelate, syncoxa with seta, basis unarmed, endopod drawn out into claw. P1 with 3-segmented exopod and 2-segmented endopod; exp-2 without inner seta; enp-2 with unmodified setae; endopod as long as exopod. P2–P 4 ♀ short and robust, with 3-segmented exopods and 1-segmented endopods. Exopods with one outer spine on exp-3; without sexual dimorphism; P4 exp-3 inner seta present. Endopods P2 and P4 not sexually dimorphic; ♂ P3 endopod (in)completely 2-segmented; drawn out into slender apophysis, without inner seta on enp-1. P1–P4 armature formula as follows:

	Exopod	Endopod
P1	0.0.022	1.111
P2	0.0.021	120
P3	0.0.021	120 [modified in ♂]
P4	0.0.121	020