A new and exceptional species of Bradya Boeck, 1873 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin and the variability of deep-sea Harpacticoida

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1866, 2008, Pages 303-332

  Seifried, Sybille ^a   Arbizu, Pedro Martínez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Senckenberg am Meer   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bradya; Species description; Taxonomy; Variability of deep sea Harpacticoida

Indexed keywords

BRADYA; COPEPODA; ECTINOSOMATIDAE; HARPACTICOIDA;

EID: 53049101193     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1866.1.15     Document Type: Article

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