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During a comprehensive investigation of the meiofauna of the Kwinte Bank, a sandbank in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, several specimens were collected of an interstitial harpacticoid of the family Cylindropsyllidae, representing a new genus. These specimens, referred to as <i>Arenopontia</i> sp. A by Willems <i>et al</i>. (in press), occurred in two stations with a pure, very well sorted coarse sand. The physical characteristics were: a median grain size: 402-517 µm; sorting: 0.30-0.24 Ø; mud (<63 µm) content: 0.05-0 % ; gravel (>2000 µm) content: 1.13-0.24 %. The copepod association was dominated by <i>Interleptomesochra eulittoralis</i> Noodt, 1952). <i>Leptastacus laticaudatus intermedius</i> Kunz, 1938, <i>Metacyclopina brevisetosa</i> Herbst, 1974 and <i>Ectinosoma reductum</i> Bozic, 1954.
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