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Crustacés copépodes de litière de la forêt ombrophile du Kivu (Zaïre)

Danielle DEFAYE & Armin HEYMER

fr Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4ème série – section A – Zoologie, Biologie et Écologie animales 18 (1-2) - Pages 185-209

Published on 17 July 1996

Copepoda (Crustacea) from rain forest litter in Kivu (Zaire)

Harpacticoid and cyclopoid copepods were collected in leaf litter from the rain forest in Irangi, Zaire near Lake Kivu,. Two new species Echinocamptus hypophyllus n. sp. and Elaphoidella propedamasi n. sp. are described. Bryocyclops (Bryocyclops) phyllopus Kiefer, 1935, a muscicolous cyclopid, previously known from Kenya and Ethiopia, is newly recorded from Zaire.


Keywords:

Leaf litter, Kivu (Zaire), Africa, Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Taxonomy, Echinocamptus hypophyllus n. sp., Elaphoidella propedamasi n. sp.