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Four adult females of a rare benthic/epiphytic harpacticoid copepod species of the genus Peltidium Philippi, 1839 were collected from insular zooplankton samples from the Revillagigedo National Park, Mexico.
This is the second record of this species from two remote oceanic islands in the Revillagigedo National Park, San Benedicto and Clarion Island.
report. San Benedicto Island is an unexpectedly distant habitat, about 600 km from the type locality on the coast of Nayarit; Clarion Island is a further 425 km from San Benedicto Island.
This wide distribution of the copepod could be due to the influence of episodic storms and hurricanes.
Peltidium nayarit has a dark reddish-pink coloration, which is thought to mimic the color of the macroalgae in which they live.
The original discovery and only record of Peltidium nayarit was on a rocky beach, Nayarit, central Pacific of Mexico) now Revillagigedo Islands.
Literature reference:
Palomares-García JR, Gómez-Gutiérrez J (2024)
Complementary description of Peltidium nayarit (Copepoda, Harpaticoida, Peltidiidae) and a new record at Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico.
ZooKeys 1214: 187-195. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1214.132950
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This is the second record of this species from two remote oceanic islands in the Revillagigedo National Park, San Benedicto and Clarion Island.
report. San Benedicto Island is an unexpectedly distant habitat, about 600 km from the type locality on the coast of Nayarit; Clarion Island is a further 425 km from San Benedicto Island.
This wide distribution of the copepod could be due to the influence of episodic storms and hurricanes.
Peltidium nayarit has a dark reddish-pink coloration, which is thought to mimic the color of the macroalgae in which they live.
The original discovery and only record of Peltidium nayarit was on a rocky beach, Nayarit, central Pacific of Mexico) now Revillagigedo Islands.
Literature reference:
Palomares-García JR, Gómez-Gutiérrez J (2024)
Complementary description of Peltidium nayarit (Copepoda, Harpaticoida, Peltidiidae) and a new record at Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico.
ZooKeys 1214: 187-195. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1214.132950
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
