| A new family of harpacticoid copepods, Adenopleurellidae, is proposed to accommodate the genera <i>Adenopleurella</i>, new genus, </i>Sarsocletodes</i> Wilson, <i>Miroslavia</i> Apostolov, and <i>Proceropes</i>, new genus. The genus <i>Sarsocletodes</i> is removed from the Laophontidae T. Scott on the basis of the reduced nature of leg 1 which cannot be attributed to heterochronic (neotenic) events. <i>Sarsocletodes secundus</i> Smirnov is placed in a new genus, <i>Proceropes</i>, on account of the primitive P1 and P5, and is considered the most primitive member of the family. <i>Miroslavia longicaudata</i> is excluded from the Cletodidae T. Scott and is most... |
