Forficatocaris Noodti N. Gen., N. Sp. (Copepoda Harpacticoidea) Aus Brasilianischem Limnopsammal

Revision of Brasilibathynellocaris Jakobi, 1972 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae) with redefinition of the genus

“…Other workers (viz. Menzel, 1916; Delachaux, 1924; Kiefer, 1936a, b, 1967a, b, 1968; Noodt, 1955, 1963, 1965, 1972a, b; Rouch, 1962; Jakobi, 1969, 1972b; Dussart, 1979, 1981, 1983; Reid, 1982, 1991, 1994; Rocha, Torres & Maia‐Barbosa, 1998) did not find representatives of Brasilibathynellocaris in other South American groundwater habitats, this being indicative of the scarcity of species of this genus in South America.…”

“…We can specially mention the genus Remaneicaris Jakobi, 1972, with 31 described species, occurring from El Salvador to Argentina. The second and third most diverse genera are Forficatocaris Jakobi, 1969 and Potamocaris Dussart, 1979. With 13 and six described species, respectively, they are so far endemic to South America and are very abundant in the tropics, with numerous undescribed species in the Amazon region (P. H. C. Corgosinho, unpubl.…”

A new species of Parastenocaris from Korea, with a redescription of the closely related P. biwae from Japan (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae)

“…Five new species groups were added subsequently by Noodt (1962;1963;, mostly for the newly discovered and very diverse South American fauna, but it became apparent that this increasingly more complex system of species groups was not a reflection of true phylogenetic relationships, which were not taken into account in descriptions of many newly proposed taxa (species and subspecies). Jakobi (1969) described one of the Noodt's groups as a new genus, and it was Jakobi (1972) who made the first effort to revise the family by splitting it into 26 different genera, although only assigning to them 98 out of the 155 then known species. This system was strongly criticised by Schminke (1976), and was ignored for a long time by most subsequent taxonomists working on this group, all of them accepting only two of Jakobi's genera (see Por and Hadel, 1986;Dussart and Defaye, 1990;Reid, 1995;Karanovic and Bobic, 1998;Ranga Reddy, 2001;Galassi and De Laurentiis, 2004;Boxshall and Halsey, 2004;Karanovic, 2005a;2006;Cottarelli et al, 2006;2007Wells, 2007;Ranga Reddy and Defaye, 2007;Huys, 2009).…”

Copépodes Harpacticoïdes Stygobies De France. 7. Description De Deux Nouveaux Copépodes Du Genre Parastenocaris Kessler, 1913

“…De nombreux genres proposés par Jakobi (1969Jakobi ( , 1972, seul les genres Forficatoris et Paraforficatocaris ont été retenus. Plus tard Dussart (1979) a créé un genre nouveau: Potamocaris.…”