Title: Three Aetideid Species of Copepods (Copepoda: Calanoida: Aetideidae) from East Sea of Korea
Abstract: Three aetideid copepods collected from the East Sea of Korea are described: Bradyidius angustus (Tanaka, 1957), Gaetanus minutus (Sars, 1907), and Aetideus acutus Farran, 1929.The former two species are new to the Korean copepod fauna.The sequences of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 were determined to be the molecular characteristics of these three species.