Species Card of Copepod
Calanoida ( Order )
    Diaptomoidea ( Superfamily )
        Pontellidae ( Family )
            Labidocera ( Genus )
Labidocera lubbocki  Giesbrecht, 1889   (F,M)
Ref.:
Giesbrecht, 1892 (p.446, 459, 773, figs.F,M); Giesbrecht & Schmeil, 1898 (p.136, Rem.F,M, fig.M)
Species Labidocera lubbocki - Plate 1 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.41, Fig.4].
Female: 4, habitus (dorsal).


Species Labidocera lubbocki - Plate 2 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.41, Fig.34].
Female: 34, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).


Species Labidocera lubbocki - Plate 3 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.25, Fig.27].
Female: 27, P5.


Species Labidocera lubbocki - Plate 4 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.41, Fig.32].
Male: 32, Th5 and urosome (dorsal).


Species Labidocera lubbocki - Plate 5 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.23, Fig.32, 39].
Male: 32, right P5 (posterior view); 39, left P5 (anterior view).


Species Labidocera lubbocki - Plate 6 of morphological figuresIssued from : W. Giesbrecht in Systematik und Faunistik der Pelagischen Copepoden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. – Fauna Flora Golf. Neapel, 1892. Atlas von 54 Tafeln. [Taf.23, Fig.3].
Male: 3, right A1 (distal part).

Compl. Ref.:
Fleminger, 1965 (p.124, Rem.); 1975 (p.401 & suiv.); Silas & Pillai, 1973 (1976) (p.774); van der Spoel & Heyman, 1983 (p.106); Sewell, 1948 (p.292); Brodsky, 1972 (p.256); Brinton & al., 1986 (p.228, fig.11: spatial dstribution, Table 1); Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p.110); Alvarez-Silva & al., 2003 (p.737, tab.2); Alvarez-Silva & al., 2005 (p.39); Morales-Ramirez & Suarez-Morales, 2008 (p.521)
NZ: 2 + 1 doubtful

Distribution map of Labidocera lubbocki by geographical zones
Loc:
W Mexico (Pacif.), Gulf of California, Zihuatanejo Bay, W Costa Rica, Equador (Guayaquil Estuary), Peru, Galapagos, Gulf of Tonkin, [? Philippines , ? japon (in C.B. Wilson, 1950, p.247)]
N: 6
Lg.:
(46) F: 2,6; M: 2,42; {F: 2,60; M: 2,42}
Rem.: ? Cf. Labidocera darwini.
''Labidocera trispinosa'' Group (in Brinton & al., 1986).
Diagnosis for L. lubbocki in the 'darwinii' species group after Prusova & Al-Yamani (2014, p.1165) :
Females:
- 1: Urosome of 3 somites.
- 2: Genital somite asymmetrical, caudal rami of approximately equal length.
- 3: Caudal rami symmetrical, or roughly symmetrical, separate from anal somite.
- 4: Exopod of nearly symmetrical P5 with 2 or 3 terminal points, genital pore ventro-lateral.
- 5: P5 exopod with 2 terminal points, inner one larger.
- 6: 2nd urosomal somite without left lateral swelling proximally.
Males:
- 1: Urosome of 5 somites.
- 2: Prosome posterior corners asymmetrical, right corner longer or modified.
- 3: Prosome posterior corners strongly asymmetrical, with 3 prominent spiniform prongs on right, lateral-most the largest.
- 4: Lateral-most prosomal prong not curved in lateral view;
- 5: Dorsal-most prosomal prong less than 1/4 length of lateral-most prong; P5 exopodal segment 1 with relatively narrow triangle process medially.
Last update : 12/11/2015
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