A New Eulimnadia (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) from the US Virgin Islands

D Christopher Rogers; Edwin Cruz-Rivera

doi:10.6620/ZS.2020.59-42

A New Eulimnadia (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) from the US Virgin Islands

Zool Stud. 2020 Aug 5:59:e42. doi: 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-42. eCollection 2020.

Authors

D Christopher Rogers¹, Edwin Cruz-Rivera²

Affiliations

¹ Kansas Biological Survey, and The Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759, USA. E-mail: Branchiopod@gmail.com (Rogers).
² University of the Virgin Islands, Department of Biological Sciences, #2 John Brewers Bay, St. Thomas, VI 00802, US Virgin Islands. E-mail: edwin.cruzrivera@uvi.edu (Cruz-Rivera).

Abstract

We describe a new species of Eulimnadia from the Caribbean using fresh material from the island of St Thomas. Originally reported in 2003 as a Eulimnadia cf. texana (Packard, 1871) based on egg morphology, this species egg distinctly differs from E. texana by the number of lateral grooves and by the single domed end.

Keywords: Caribbean Islands; Diplostraca; piny clam shrimp.