Chiridiella bispinosa - Species Card - Marine Planktonic Copepods

Species Card of Copepod

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Chiridiella bispinosa Park, 1970 (F)

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Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Park, 1970 (p.475, 493, Descr.F, figs.F); Markhaseva, 1996 (p.88, figs.F)

issued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Proc. Zool. Inst. RAN, St. Petersburg, 1996, 268. [p.92, Fig.67].
Female.

Species Chiridiella bispinosa - Plate 2 of morphological figures

Issued from : T. S. Park in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1970, 20 (2). [p.494, Figs.78-80].
Female (from G. of Mexico): 78, habitus (dorsal); 79, idem (lateral left side); 80, A2.
Nota: Head and 1st thoracic segment separate, 4th and 5th fused.

Species Chiridiella bispinosa - Plate 3 of morphological figures

Issued from : T. S. Park in Bull. Mar. Sc., 1970, 20 (2). [p.495, Figs.81-88].
Female: 81, Md; 82, Mx1; 83, Mx2; 84, Mxp; 85, P1 (anterior); 86, P2 (anterior); 87, P3 (anterior); 88, P4 (anterior).
Nota: Mx1 with 2nd innerlobe absent, 3rd with 2 setae and a short process; basis with 1 seta; endopod with 3 setae; exopod with 9 setae. Mx2: distal two lobes each with a heavily thickened spine.

Species Chiridiella bispinosa - Plate 4 of morphological figures

issued from : E.L. Markhaseva in Proc. Zool. Inst. RAN, St. Petersburg, 1996, 268. [p.92, Fig.67].
Female: Mx2.

Chiridiella bispinosa female:
1 - Mx2 with 5 endites.
2 - Mx2 not strongly modified in comparison with typical; setation of first-fifth endites nearly of the same size, without pincers-like spines.
3 - Endopod of P1 without external lobe.
4 - Exopod of P1 with 2 external spines.
5 - Mx1 second internal lobe reduced, third with 2 setae and short filament; endopod with 3 setae; exopod with 8-9 setae.

Chiridiella bispinosa female ;
1 - Mx2 lobes without spines arranged as pincers.
2 - 3rd, 4th and 5th lobes of Mx2 with enlarged hooklike spines .
4 - A1 longer than body, reaching just beyond the caudal rami.
5 - Cephalothorax around 5 times length of urosome.
6 - P1 exopod with 2 edge spines.

Compl. Ref.:

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List of the studied authors )

Suarez-Morales & Gasca, 1998 a (p107)

NZ:

Distribution map of Chiridiella bispinosa by geographical zones

Distribution map of Chiridiella bispinosa for the Zone Indian Ocean

Loc:

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Geographical glossary )

Gulf of Mexico, W Indian.

Type locality: 27°08'N, 89°55'W.

Lg.:

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References of the authors concerning dimensions )

(37) F: 2,5; (88) F: 2,52; {F: 2,50-2,52}

Rem.:

meso & bathypelagic.
This species is related to C. subaequalis Grice & Hulsemann (1965), in the latter, Mx1 has 3 inner lobes and only 4 setae on the exopod and in Mx2 the heavy spines on the distal three lobes are equal in length.

Last update : 26/07/2018


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