312
2mm
ABC
1 mm
DE
F
Fig. 4. Tanymastix motasi Orghidan, 1945: A,B,C. First, seventh and eleventh thoracic leg in male. D. Ultimate thoracic segment with right
leg, genital segments with right penis, postgenital segments and cercopods, lateral aspect. E. Penes with retracted distal portions, ventral aspect.
F. Antenna, antennula and eye in female, frontal aspect. G. Antenna in female, medio-frontal aspect. H. Ultimate thoracic segment, genital
segments with ovisac, postgenital segments and cercopods in female, lateral aspect. I. Last thoracic segments, genital segments, postgenital
segments and cercopods in female, dorsal aspect. (Orig. Petkovski).
grass and the water is clear. T. motasi was absent in
the deeper puddles with turbid water and clay bottoms
without vegetation even though these biotopes are next
to each other. Tanymastix motasi was usually the only
anostracan present in these extremely shallow puddles, though occasionally Chirocephalus pelagonicus
Petkovski (1986) and Chirocephalus diaphanus carinatus (Daday, 1910) were also simultaneously, but