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Carlos Varela

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The distribution of four species of harpacticoid copepods belonging of the genus Peltidium is widening in the Caribbean Sea and Florida (United States of America). Those species were previously known only from The Bahamas, Cuba and Mexico.

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Atlantic Ocean, Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, Peltidiinae, Peltidium

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Geddes, D. C. (1968). Marine biological investigations in the Bahamas. 7. Harpacticoid copepods belonging to the families Porcellidiidae Sars, Peltidiidae Sars and Tegastidae Sars. Sarsia, 35(1), 9–56.

Suárez-Morales, E. (2022). Complementary description and record of Peltidium perturbatum Geddes, 1968 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Peltidiidae) from the Northwestern Tropical Atlantic. Crustaceana, 95(7), 803–814. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10227

Varela, C. (2005). Una nueva especie de Peltidium (Copepoda: Harpacticoida), de Cuba. Solenodon, 5, 1–5.

Varela, C., Castellanos, S. & Hernández, L. (2008). Registros nuevos de invertebrados (Cnidaria y Crustacea) para Cuba. Cocuyo, (17), 12–14.

Varela, C. & Gómez, S. (2013). Dos nuevas especies de la familia Peltidiidae Boeck, 1873 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) de Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (6), 51–62. https://doi. org/10.33800/nc.v0i6.107

Varela, C. & Gómez, S. (2018). First record of the family Peltidiidae (Copepoda Harpacticoida) from the Gulf of Mexico with the description of a new species of Peltidium. Bulletin South California Academy of Sciences, 117(2), 120–126. https://doi.org/10.3160/3756.1
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Varela, C. (2023). New records of Peltidiidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) in the Caribean Sea and Florida. Novitates Caribaea, (22), 85–89. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.341

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