Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington—Nos. 71, 72 and 73
Family Gelyellidae
Family Gelyellidae
Gelyella droguei Rouch & Lescher-Moutoué, 1977, a new genus and species, is the sole species in a new family of primitive freshwater harpacticoids which tends to link together Lang's (1948) primary divisions of Polyarthra and Oligoarthra. The Key to Families (p.5) requires modification of couplet 5 as follows—
5. | P.4-P.5 absent. | Gelyellidae |
P.4-P.5 present. | 5a | |
5a. | Distal segment of Enp. P.2 much longer than the entire Exp. | Longipediidaea) |
Distal segment of Enp. P.2 shorter than the Exp. | Canuellidae |