Abstract
A new Iberian species of the genus Iberobathynella is described from the groundwater of Ojo Guarena cave, in the north of Spain (Burgos). The new species belongs to the subgenus Espanobathynella and presents a unique combination of characters, as follow: female thoracopod 8 with wrinkled cuticle and 1 tooth (the rest of species in this subgenus show a smooth cuticle); seven-eight spines on the furca; 10-12 spines on the sympod, four barbed setae on the exopod and an unarmed endopod of the uropod; labrum with 9 main teeth in the female and 8 in the male; maxilla with one, four and 15 setae on its three segments, respectively; seven teeth on the distal segment of the maxillule; seven teeth on the pars incisiva and seven-nine teeth on the pars molaris of the mandible and antennule with 7 segments.
Highlights
With the discovery of one more new species, the tribe Iberobathynellini (Camacho and Serban, 1998) comprises 26 species in the Iberian Peninsula and four in the rest of the world
Of the 20 species of iberobathynellids known to date, none shows the combination of characters present in the new species described here
The new species belongs to the genus Iberobathynella Schminke, 1973, and to the subgenus Espanobathynella Camacho et Serban, 1998
Summary
With the discovery of one more new species, the tribe Iberobathynellini (Camacho and Serban, 1998) comprises 26 species in the Iberian Peninsula and four in the rest of the world (three in North America and one in North Africa). The new species belongs to the genus Iberobathynella Schminke, 1973 (with 21 species) (see table 1), and to the subgenus Espanobathynella Camacho et Serban, 1998 (with four species). Asturiensis parasturiensis cavadoensis ortizi rouchi imuniensis serbani guarenensis celiana lamasonensis cornejoensis pedroi
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