DIOSACCIDAE Sars, 1906

[now MIRACIIDAE Dana, 1846 (Willen, 2002)]

DIOSACCINAE Sars,1906


ROBERTGURNEYA Lang, 1944

  • Robertgurneya arabica (Noodt, 1964) [Red Sea; marine]
  • Robertgurneya brevipes Wells & Rao, 1987 [Andaman, Nicobar islands; marine]
  • Robertgurneya dactylifera (Wilson, 19329 [north America; brackish waters]
  • Robertgurneya dictydiophora (Monard, 1924) [France; marine]
  • Robertgurneya diversa Lang, 1965 [USA; marine]
  • Robertgurneya ecaudata (Monard, 1936) [Africa, algerie; Amphioxus sands]
  • Robertgurneya erythaeus Scott A., 1902
  • Robertgurneya falklandiensis (Lang, 1936) [Falkland; marine]
  • Robertgurneya hopkinsi Lang, 1965 [USA; marine]
  • Robertgurneya ilievecensis (Monard, 1935) [France; marine sand]
  • Robertgurneya intermedia Bozic, 1955 [France; marine] *
  • Robertgurneya oligochaeta Noodt, 1955 [Marmara Sea, Black sea]
  • Robertgurneya remanei Klie, 1950 [Helgoland; marine]
  • Robertgurneya rostrata (Gurney, 1927) [Bermuda, France, Egypt; marine sand]
  • Robertgurneya similis similis (A. Scott, 1896) [Ireland, Mediterranean, Blak sea; marine]
  • Robertgurneya similis bulbamphiascoides Noodt, 1955 [Turkey, Marmara Sea]
  • Robertgurneya simulans (Norman & T. Scott, 1905) [Ireland, Mediterranean, Blak sea; marine, sublittoral]
  • Robertgurneya smithi Hamond, 1973 [Australia; marine]
  • Robertgurneya soyeri Apostolov, 1974 [Blak Sea]
  • Robertgurneya spinulosa (Sars, 1911) [north Europe; marine]

    * questionable species [aberrant Amphiascus after Lang (1965)]

    WORLD KEY TO SPECIES IN : Hamond R. 1973. Robertgurneya smithi nov. p. (Crutacea, Harpacticoida) with notes on other species of the genus. J. nat. Hist., 7: 65-76.



    STENHELIINAE Brady, 1880


    PSEUDOSTENHELIA Wells, 1967

    The genus Pseudostenhelia, described by Wells (1967) to accomodate the species Pseudostenhelia prima from the littoral of the Inhaca Island (Mozambique), is one of the less diversified genus within the family Diosaccidae, including only the following three species:

  • Pseudostenhelia prima Wells, 1967 [Africa, Mozambique; marine coastal]
  • Pseudostenhelia secunda Wells, 1971 [India; rivers, lakes]
  • Pseudostenhelia wellsi Coull & Fleeger, 1977 [USA, Mexico; associated with Spartina alterniflora]

    REVIEW IN: Gomez S. 2000. Redescription of Pseudostenhelia wellsi Coull & Fleeger, 1977 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from a tropical coastal lagoon in the southeastern gulf of California (Mexico). Crustaceana, 73 (1): 68-82.



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