During an intensive study of the copepod associations living on the seagrass <i>Thalassia hemprichii</i> (Ehrenberg) Ascherson in Gazi Bay (Kenya), three representatives of the harpacticoid family Tetragonicipitidae Lang, 1944 were found. <i>Diagoniceps laevis</i> Willey, 1930 previously reported from Bermuda (type locality) and the Bahamas. was found in Gazi Bay. Comparison with the Atlantic material revealed only minor differences. <i>Odaginiceps immanis</i> n. sp. is the fourth species of the genus, which was known until now from three species described from the Central Atlantic. The new genus <i>Mwania</i> is defined for <i>M. phytocola</i> n. sp. which, with its three-segmented endopodite of... |