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A CEAB scientist collaborates in the description of a new species of parasitic copepod

The authors of the article describe a new copepod species of Anthessiidae, Anthessius alpheusicolous, found in association with the snapping shrimp Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835) in the Medes Islands, NW Mediterranean Sea. The new species is differentiated from its 40 congeners by the formula of the third segment of the fourth exopod, the number and morphology of [...]