New and interesting copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda) from brackish waters of Laing Island (Northern Papua New Guinea)

In the paper at hand, eight copepods are described from two small temporary brackish water pools at Laing Island (Papua New Guinea). Included are one cyclopoid: Neocyclops papuensis n. sp. and seven harpacticoids: Darcythompsonia inopinata Smirnov, Leptocaris mucronatus n. sp.; Schizopera brusinae Petkovski, Nitocra lacrustris pacifica Yeatman, Nitocra laingensis n. sp., Phyllopodopsyllus alatus n. sp. and Actinocletodes woutersi n. gen., n. sp