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The deep organic soils of wet campo flush marshes in the highlands of central Brazil harbor a speciose assemblage of epibenthic and interstitial cyclopoid and harpacticoid copepods, with parastenocaridids particu- larly well represented (Reid, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1993[1994]a, b). Mounds of uncer- tain origin, locally named murundus, are a common topographic feature of wet campos and floodplains in the region. Murundus are usually 1-4 m in diameter and rise to 1-1.5 m above the base soil level. The murundu soils are drier than the surrounding marsh and the mounds are frequently colonized by typical cerrado (savanna) vegetation. More detailed descriptions of murundus were fur- nished by Eiten (1984: photo 11), Oliveira- Filho (1992), and Reid (1984: fig. 4). Two samples taken in a wet campo marsh near Brasilia yielded a previously unde- scribed species of parastenocaridid cope- pod. The marsh, Campo Umido da Onça, is located in an ecological reserve on the Fazenda Agua Limpa (15°56'40"S, 47°54'20"W, altitude about 1,160 m). Sam- ple 215 included combined soil samples from the side of a murundu within the marsh, about 0.5 m above the marsh prop- er, in black loamy organic soil containing about 64% water by weight. Because of
Journal of Crustacean Biology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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